Measuring the forecasting accuracy of models: evidence from industrialised countries Online publication date: Sun, 08-Feb-2009
by Athanasios Koulakiotis, Apostolos Dasilas
International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance (IJMEF), Vol. 2, No. 1, 2009
Abstract: This paper uses the approach suggested by Akrigay (1989), Tse and Tung (1992) and Dimson and Marsh (1990) to examine the forecasting accuracy of stock price index models for industrialised markets. The focus of this paper is to compare the Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) of three models, that is, the Random Walk model, the Single Exponential Smoothing model and the Conditional Heteroskedastic model with the MAPE of the benchmark Naive Forecast 1 case. We do not evidence that a single model to provide better forecasting accuracy results compared to other models.
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