Robust inference under time‐varying volatility: A real‐time evaluation of professional forecasters
时变波动下的稳健推断:专业预测者的实时评估
Summary In many forecast evaluation applications, standard tests as well as tests allowing for time‐variation in relative forecast ability build on heteroskedasticity‐and‐autocorrelation consistent (HAC) covariance estimators. Yet, the finite‐sample performance of these asymptotics is often poor. “Fixed‐ ” asymptotics, used to account for long‐run variance estimation, improve finite‐sample performance under homoskedasticity, but lose asymptotic pivotality under time‐varying…