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題名 Price Errors from Thin Markets and Their Corrections: Studies Based on Taiwan`s Political Futures Markets
作者 陳樹衡
Chen, Shu-Heng ; Wu, Wei-Shao
貢獻者 政治大學經濟系
日期 2009
上傳時間 28-Jul-2011 10:36:25 (UTC+8)
摘要 While it has been claimed in many empirical studies that the political futures market can forecast better than the polls, it is unclear upon which our forecast should be based. Standard practice seems to suggest the use of the closing price of the market, as a reflection of the continuous process of information revealing and aggregation, but we are unsure that this practice applies to thin markets. In this chapter, we propose a number of reconstructions of the price series and use the closing price based on these reconstructed series as the forecast. We then test these ideas by comparing their forecasting performance with the closing price of the original series. It is found that forecasting accuracy can be gained if we use the closing price based on the smoothing series rather than the original series. However, there is no clear advantage by either using more sophisticated smoothing techniques, such as wavelets, or using external information, such as trading volume and duration time. The results show that the median, the simplest smoothing technique, performs rather well when compared with all complications.
關聯 Advances in Econometrics, Vol.24, pp.1-25
資料類型 article
DOI http://dx.doi.org/
dc.contributor 政治大學經濟系en_US
dc.creator (作者) 陳樹衡zh_TW
dc.creator (作者) Chen, Shu-Heng ; Wu, Wei-Shao-
dc.date (日期) 2009en_US
dc.date.accessioned 28-Jul-2011 10:36:25 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 28-Jul-2011 10:36:25 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 28-Jul-2011 10:36:25 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/50622-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) While it has been claimed in many empirical studies that the political futures market can forecast better than the polls, it is unclear upon which our forecast should be based. Standard practice seems to suggest the use of the closing price of the market, as a reflection of the continuous process of information revealing and aggregation, but we are unsure that this practice applies to thin markets. In this chapter, we propose a number of reconstructions of the price series and use the closing price based on these reconstructed series as the forecast. We then test these ideas by comparing their forecasting performance with the closing price of the original series. It is found that forecasting accuracy can be gained if we use the closing price based on the smoothing series rather than the original series. However, there is no clear advantage by either using more sophisticated smoothing techniques, such as wavelets, or using external information, such as trading volume and duration time. The results show that the median, the simplest smoothing technique, performs rather well when compared with all complications.-
dc.language.iso en_US-
dc.relation (關聯) Advances in Econometrics, Vol.24, pp.1-25en_US
dc.title (題名) Price Errors from Thin Markets and Their Corrections: Studies Based on Taiwan`s Political Futures Marketsen_US
dc.type (資料類型) articleen
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) en_US
dc.doi.uri (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/en_US