Comparing Predictive Accuracy in the Presence of a Loss Function Shape Parameter
We develop joint out-of-sample tests for multiple testing problems that arise when comparing predictive accuracy using loss or utility functions that contain shape parameters. Our tests cover forecast comparison scenarios in which the shape parameter (vector) takes values in some subset of Euclidean space. We apply our tests to three such forecast evaluation problems. First, we consider hypotheses of equal (superior) expected utility between two portfolio strategies, defined over an interval of risk aversion parameter values. Second, we consider hypotheses of equal (superior) predictive ability between two conditional quantile forecast models using Murphy diagrams. Finally, we consider hypotheses of equal (superior) predictive ability of univariate quantile forecasts of portfolio returns–as generated by multivariate models of the portfolio assets–by examining all portfolios with positive weights summing to one. In empirical applications we show that the new tests reject at least as often as benchmarks tests, such as the standard Wald test or Bonferonni multiple correction, and are better behaved than the benchmarks in practice, in that p-values remain stable as we test at more elements of the multiple hypothesis. Monte Carlo experiments verify that our tests have good size and power properties in small sample.
Date: 2 May 2019, 13:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Trinity 2019)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Speaker: Sander Barendse (University of Oxford)
Organising department: Department of Economics
Part of: Department of Economics Seminar
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Melis Clark