What Causes The Forecasting Failure of Markov-Switching Models? A Monte Carlo Study
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- Marie Bessec & Othman Bouabdallah, 2005. "What causes the forecasting failure of Markov-Switching models? A Monte Carlo study," Econometrics 0503018, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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