Evaluating The Forecast of Densities of Linear and Non-Linear Models: Applications to Output Growth and Unemployment

Michael Clements and Jeremy Smith

The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) from University of Warwick, Department of Economics

Abstract: In economics density forecasts are rarely available, and as a result attention has traditionally focused on poit forecasts of the mean and the use of mean square error statistics to represent the loss function. We extend the methods of forecasts density evaluation in Diebold, Gunther and Tay (1997) to compare linear and non-linear model based forecasts of US out put growth and changes in the unemployment rate.

Keywords: FORECASTS; STATISTICS; LINEAR MODELS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C50 C52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 1998
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Working Paper: EVALUATING THE FORECAST DENSITIES OF LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR MODELS: APPLICATIONS TO OUTPUT GROWTH AND UNEMPLOYMENT (1998)
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