Comparing Greenbook and Reduced Form Forecasts Using a Large Realtime Dataset
利用大型实时数据集比较 Greenbook 与约化式预测
Many recent articles have found that atheoretical forecasting methods using many predictors give better predictions for key macroeconomic variables than various small-model methods. The practical relevance of these results is open to question, however, because these articles generally use ex post revised data not available to forecasters and because no comparison is made to best actual practice. We provide some evidence on both of these points using a new large dataset of…