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。     

基于学习的证券市场专家预测意见合成研究

针对证券市场的专家预测意见的特点，研究了将学习、证据理论与协同学理论引入证券市场专家预测意见合成的理论与方法．讨论了将专家的历史预测数据用基本可信数表示作为学习样本，对初选专家进行聚类分析选择有协同效应的专家．该方法用神经网络优化基本可信数的修正系数，再用Dempster合成规则进行预测意见的合成．实验结果表明该方法应用于解决实际问题时具有较好的效果．     

待定系数法在无理函数积分中的应用

在教学过程中通过对练习题: 的求解、分析、综合和归纳得: (1) 式中P_n(X)_9 Q_n(x)均为n次多项式,其中Q_n(x)的各项系数待定。 (2) 式中P_n(x)为n次多项式,f_(n-1)(x)为各项系数待定的(n-1)次多项式,μ_n为待定常数。     

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.     

B-凸包的内部结构

利用Bector等人[1、2]引进的B-凸集定义,给出了B-凸包定义,并研究了B-凸包的内部结构。     

组合期权交易策略的概率分析

在假定股票价格服从Ito过程条件下，讨论了采用组合期权交易策略的投资者获益的概率及损益的数学期望，得到了具体计算式，只要投资者获得相应数据，通过具体计算式加以计算，便可以为期权投资者提供数量上的重要参考依据，对期权投资者具有实用价值。     

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.