It is not structural breaks that earn average forecasts their fame

Dirk Ulbricht

Economics Bulletin, 2016, vol. 36, issue 2, 1250-1259

Abstract: Structural change is a major challenge to the applied forecaster and a potential source of large forecast errors. Large forecasting competitions demonstrate the success of combined forecasts of simple linear models over forecasting devices that endogenously model structural change. Thereby, most studies look at the average performance over time, not at or around structural changes. However, is it really reliability in the presence of structural breaks that gives average forecasts an edge over their competitors? An analysis of real-time forecasts of UK inflation indicates that it is not their break performance that earns combined forecasts their fame.

Keywords: real-time experiment; forecast combination; breaks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C2 C5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-06-22
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