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Original Articles

Forecasting with structural change: why is the random walk model so damned difficult to beat?

Pages 41-42 | Received 26 Sep 1996, Published online: 02 Nov 2006
 

Abstract

This paper demonstrates that a naive forecast of no change can produce lower mean square forecast errors than those from true models when structural change exists.

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