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VAR, Error Correction and Pretest Forecasts at Long Horizons

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This paper focuses on the construction of forecasts over long horizons where a typical, long-horizon forecast might span four years using twenty to forty years' data. It is argued that the presence of persistence in the form of unit or near-unit autoregressive roots poses substantial difficulties for long-horizon interval and point forecasting. These difficulties may not be overcome even by efficient pretesting or model-selection procedures and might, in general, lead to point forecasts with large asymptotic root mean squared errors and undesirably wide prediction intervals. Copyright 1996 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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  • Stock, James H, 1996. "VAR, Error Correction and Pretest Forecasts at Long Horizons," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 58(4), pages 685-701, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:obuest:v:58:y:1996:i:4:p:685-701
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