Spurious forecasts?

B. Martínez-Rivera, Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària, J. Eduardo Vera-Valdés

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Abstract

P. C. B. Phillips (1998) demonstrated that deterministic trends are a valid representation of an otherwise stochastic trending mechanism; he remained skeptic, however, about the predictive power of such representations. In this paper we prove that forecasts built upon spurious regression may perform (asymptotically) as well as those issued from a correctly specified regression. We derive the order in probability of several in-sample and out-of-sample predictability criteria (F test, root mean square error, Theil's U-statistics and R ) using forecasts based upon a least squares-estimated regression between independent variables generated by a variety of empirically relevant data-generating processes. It is demonstrated that, when the variables are mean stationary or trend stationary, the order in probability of these criteria is the same whether the regression is spurious or not. Simulation experiments confirm our asymptotic results.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftJournal of Forecasting
Vol/bind31
Udgave nummer3
Sider (fra-til)245-259
Antal sider15
ISSN0169-2070
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 1 apr. 2012

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