Asked about the large increase in forecast inflation for 2011, up to between 2.1% and 2.8% from the 1.3-1.7 1.3-1.7y estimate, Mr Bernanke blamed rising energy costs which, he said, should stabilise or fall in the near future.
In particular, we use a difference-in-differences design to investigate whether firms applying IFRS 8 experience a decrease in information asymmetry and/or an increase in forecast accuracy.
And the increase in forecast budget surpluses has anyway shifted the debate away from the old big-government-versus-small-government arguments of the 1980s.In short, Mr Bush is stymied whether he concentrates on attacking Mr Gore's policies or his character.
We document no significant decline in information asymmetry, measured by bid-ask spreads and depths, and no significant increase in forecast accuracy, measured by forecast errors, between the pre and post IFRS 8 periods for mandatory adopters relative to a group of control firms.
It can be observed that MAPE increases with increase in forecast horizon.
Yesterday afternoon, Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla would produce 500,000 cars in 2019, which would have been a significant increase in forecast from the 400,000 deliveries mentioned by Musk on January 30th in the company's fourth quarter shareholder letter.
This paper shows that for the purpose of prediction it may make sense to impose restrictions on the combining model because of potential increases in forecasting efficiency.
Gartner said these reductions reflect a "sharp reduction" in the forecast growth in spending on PCs and tablets that's only partially offset by "marginal increases" in forecast growth in spending on mobile phones and printers.
The forecasting error for the control group was small and stable, whereas for the suspected cinema set, there was a sharp increase in the forecasting error from August 25 to September 16 (marked by the grey box).
In addition to the expectation of augmenting the GARCH models with LSTAR models, augmenting these models with MLP and RBF type neural networks would likely to bring increase in the forecasting capabilities.
