Journal
JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS
Volume 237, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2023.01.024
Keywords
Cross validation; Forecast combination; High dimension; Local linear estimation; SCAD; Sparsity
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In this paper, a new nonparametric estimator is proposed for time-varying forecast combination weights. The theoretical properties and empirical performance of the estimator are demonstrated through the study of local linear estimation and penalized local linear estimation.
In this paper, we propose a new nonparametric estimator of time-varying forecast combination weights. When the number of individual forecasts is small, we study the asymptotic properties of the local linear estimator. When the number of candidate forecasts exceeds or diverges with the sample size, we consider penalized local linear estimation with the group SCAD penalty. We show that the estimator exhibits the oracle property and correctly selects relevant forecasts with probability approaching one. Simulations indicate that the proposed estimators outperform existing combination schemes when structural changes exist. An empirical application on inflation and unemployment forecasting highlights the merits of our approach relative to other popular methods in the literature.(c) 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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