Hypernormal Densities

UCSD, Economics Working Paper No. 2002-14, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Working Paper No

42 Pages Posted: 17 Dec 2002

See all articles by Raffaella Giacomini

Raffaella Giacomini

University College London - Department of Economics; University of California, Los Angeles - Department of Economics

Andreas Gottschling

Banking Consultants and Systems GmbH

Christian Haefke

Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS); NYU, Abu Dhabi; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Halbert L. White, Jr.

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Economics

Date Written: September 2002

Abstract

We propose a new family of density function that posses both flexibility and closed form expressions for moments and anti-derivatives, making them particularly appealing for applications. We illustrate its usefulness by applying our new family to obtain density forecasts of U.S. inflation. Our methods generate forecasts that improve on standard methods based on AR-ARCH models relying on normal or Student's t-distributional assumptions.

Keywords: ARMA-GARCH models, Neutral Networks, Nonparametric Density Estimation, Forecast Accuracy

JEL Classification: C63, C53, C45

Suggested Citation

Giacomini, Raffaella and Gottschling, Andreas and Haefke, Christian and White, Halbert L., Hypernormal Densities (September 2002). UCSD, Economics Working Paper No. 2002-14, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Working Paper No, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=340700 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.340700

Raffaella Giacomini (Contact Author)

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