Short-run price forecast performance of individual and composite models for 496 corn cash markets

Xiaojie Xu

Journal of Applied Statistics, 2017, vol. 44, issue 14, 2593-2620

Abstract: Using daily prices from 496 corn cash markets for July 2006–February 2011, this study investigates short-run forecast performance of 31 individual and 10 composite models for each market at horizons of 5, 10, and 30 days. Over the performance evaluation period September 2010–February 2011, two composite models are optimal across horizons for different markets based on the mean-squared error. For around half of the markets at the horizon of 5 days and most of them at 10 and 30 days, the mean-squared error of a market's optimal model is significantly different from those of at least other 23 models evaluated for it. Root-mean-squared error reductions through switching from non-optimal models to the optimal are generally around 0.40%, 0.55%, and 0.87% at horizons of 5, 10, and 30 days.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2016.1259399

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