Constructing and evaluating core inflation measures from component‐level inflation data

This paper undertakes a comprehensive examination of 10 measures of core inflation and evaluates which measure produces the best forecast of headline inflation out‐of‐sample. We use the Personal Consumption Expenditure Price Index as our measure of inflation. We use two sets of components (17 and 50) of the Personal Consumption Expenditure Price Index to construct these core inflation measures and evaluate these measures at the three time horizons (6, 12 and 24 months) most relevant for monetary policy decisions. The best measure of core inflation for both sets of components and over all time horizons uses weights based on the first principal component of the disaggregated (component‐level) prices. Interestingly, the results vary by the number of components used; when more components are used the weights based on the persistence of each component is statistically equivalent to the weights generated by the first principal component. However, those forecasts using the persistence of 50 components are statistically worse than those generated using the first principal component of 17 components. The statistical superiority of the principal component method is due to the fact that it extracts (in the first principal component) the common source of variation in the component level prices that accurately describes trend inflation over the next 6–24 months.     

Forecasting in long horizons using smoothed direct forecast

This paper constructs a forecast method that obtains long‐horizon forecasts with improved performance through modification of the direct forecast approach. Direct forecasts are more robust to model misspecification compared to iterated forecasts, which makes them preferable in long horizons. However, direct forecast estimates tend to have jagged shapes across horizons. Our forecast method aims to “smooth out” erratic estimates across horizons while maintaining the robust aspect of direct forecasts through ridge regression, which is a restricted regression on the first differences of regression coefficients. The forecasts are compared to the conventional iterated and direct forecasts in two empirical applications: real oil prices and US macroeconomic series. In both applications, our method shows improvement over direct forecasts.     

基于ESI和InCites的学科发展预测研究--以中国地质大学为例

基于汤姆路透公司的ESI和InCites数据库，分析了中国地质大学各学科的特征，探讨了高被引论文、热门论文、顶尖论文与学科发展的关系，并预测后续最有可能入围ESI世界前1％的学科。     

基于变量选择-神经网络模型的复杂路网短时交通流预测

摘要： 针对传统交通流预测模型正在由单断面历史数据处理向多断面、多时刻历史数据处理转变,但在考虑各断面间的影响时,多变的交通状况往往会使预测模型复杂化的问题,引入一种多元线性回归最小绝对收缩和选择算子方法(Lasso),并利用其优秀的变量选择能力,在复杂路网多断面中选出相关性较高的断面；结合神经网络(NN)的非线性特性,提出了Lasso NN组合模型.结果表明：Lasso NN模型在路网交叉口对未来15 min交通流数据预测的误差率低于9.2%；在非交叉口的误差率低于6.7%,总体优于各自单独使用得出的结果.     

面向MIS的预测支持系统的研究

通过对预测支持系统研究现状的分析,讨论了预测支持系统如何更好的适用于MIS,为其提供预测支持.并提出了更加适应MIS当今和未来发展的预测支持系统构建模式.     

小波分析在证券分析中的应用

传统股市投资分析中的证券分析方法之一———MACD法 ,利用DIF的移动平均值以确定证券的买卖时机 ,存在着时滞性 ,对非平稳的股市信息分析不能及时、较好地刻画股市的基本变化趋势 .作者根据证券投资理论 ,建立了相应的证券投资分析数学模型 ,根据小波分析多尺度分析能力强的特点 ,利用小波分解提取反映股市基本变化趋势的低频信息 ,改进了传统分析方法 ,建立了改进后的数学模型Ⅲ .该模型求解方便 ,同时与实际模型较好地逼近 ,具有时效性 .此外 ,以路桥建设股票 14 0个交易日的DIF和MACD值作为原始数据 ,用Matlab作为工具进行计算 ,求解模型Ⅲ .结果表明 :与传统分析方法相比 ,从模型Ⅲ中能得到更多的买卖点信息 ,而且价差更大 ,效果显著 ,充分显示了小波分析在股市技术分析中的强大生命力     

堆焊切粒刀技术初探

介绍堆焊切粒刀的优点 ,着重探讨了采用靠模法加工堆焊切粒刀螺旋槽的原理 ,论证了所介绍加工工艺的合理性 .事实证明 ,采用介绍的加工工艺生产的堆焊切粒刀 ,可满足设计的技术性能 ,质量可达到国外同类产品的水平     

基于GM（1，1）模型的某高校招生人数预测

分析了近年来我国高校招生人数的变化趋势，并利用GM（1，1）模型对某高校2008年的招生人数进行了预测．从而为高校招生人数决策提供了依据。     

Forecast accuracy after pretesting with an application to the stock market

In econometrics, as a rule, the same data set is used to select the model and, conditional on the selected model, to forecast. However, one typically reports the properties of the (conditional) forecast, ignoring the fact that its properties are affected by the model selection (pretesting). This is wrong, and in this paper we show that the error can be substantial. We obtain explicit expressions for this error. To illustrate the theory we consider a regression approach to stock market forecasting, and show that the standard predictions ignoring pretesting are much less robust than naive econometrics might suggest. We also propose a forecast procedure based on the ‘neutral Laplace estimator’, which leads to an improvement over standard model selection procedures. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于相对业绩比较的报酬契约与代理成本分析

有效的报酬契约是企业所有者激励经营者努力工作的最佳动力，该文在考虑了相对业绩比较信息条件下，运用委托代理理论探讨了将货币收入和享受闲暇作为经营者的激励物的最优报酬契约，分析了非对称信息条件下实施契约的代理成本，得出了经营者利润分享系数与影响因素之间的关系模型以及代理成本与影响因素之间的关系模型，该文还设计了经营者的股票期权激励机制，并地某些企业作了案例分析，文章阐明股票期权激励能够将经营者的长期行为和利益与企业的长期目标结合起来，是调动经营者积极性的有效手段。