System Theoretic Time-Series Forecasts of Weekly Live Cattle Prices

Kenneth Foster, Arthur M. Havenner and Allan M. Walburger

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1995, vol. 77, issue 4, 1012-1023

Abstract: Multivariate time-series forecasts of weekly live cattle prices in six different geographic markets are developed using a procedure based on the principles of linear systems theory. These forecasts were found to be informative and superior to those obtained from an alternative model. Following the approach developed for stock prices by Cerchi and Havenner, arbitrage portfolios were constructed from the model parameters. A simulation exercise based on 208 weekly observations withheld from model specification and estimation suggests that these arbitrage activities would have been profitable in practice.

Date: 1995
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