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来源IDDP4022
DP4022 Real-Time Hierarchical Resource Allocation with Quadratic Costs
Timothy Van Zandt
发表日期2003-08-23
出版年2003
语种英语
摘要Evaluation of forecast optimality in economics and finance has almost exclusively been conducted under the assumption of mean squared error loss. Under this loss function optimal forecasts should be unbiased and forecast errors serially uncorrelated at the single-period horizon with increasing variance as the forecast horizon grows. Using analytical results we show in this Paper that all the standard properties of optimal forecasts can be invalid under asymmetric loss and non-linear data-generating processes and thus may be very misleading as a benchmark for an optimal forecast. Our theoretical results suggest that many of the conclusions in the empirical literature concerning sub-optimality of forecasts could be premature. We extend the properties that an optimal forecast should have to a more general setting than previously considered in the literature. We also present new results on forecast error properties that may be tested when the forecaster's loss function is unknown but restrictions can be imposed on the data-generating process, and introduce a change of measure, following which the optimum forecast errors for general loss functions have the same properties as optimum errors under MSE loss.
主题Financial Economics
关键词Forecast evaluation Loss function Rationality Efficient markets
URLhttps://cepr.org/publications/dp4022
来源智库Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型智库出版物
条目标识符http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/533000
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Timothy Van Zandt. DP4022 Real-Time Hierarchical Resource Allocation with Quadratic Costs. 2003.
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