FINITE-SAMPLE PROPERTIES OF FORECASTS FROM THE STATIONARY FIRST-ORDER AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL UNDER A GENERAL ERROR DISTRIBUTION

Yong Bao ()

Econometric Theory, 2007, vol. 23, issue 04, pages 767-773

Abstract: We study the properties of the multi-period-ahead least-squares forecast for the stationary AR(1) model under a general error distribution. We find that the forecast is unbiased up to O(T 1), where T is the in-sample size, regardless of the error distribution and that the mean squared forecast error, up to O(T 3 2), is robust against nonnormality.The author is grateful to the co-editor Paolo Paruolo and two anonymous referees for helpful comments. The author is solely responsible for any remaining errors.

Date: 2007

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