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Allan Timmermann

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arXiv2026

Warp speed price moves: Jumps after earnings announcements

Corporate earnings announcements unpack large bundles of public information that should, in efficient markets, trigger jumps in stock prices. Testing this implication is difficult in practice, as it requires noisy high-frequency data from after-hours markets, where most earnings announcements are released. Using a unique dataset and a new microstructure noise-robust jump test, we show that earnings announcements almost always induce jumps in the stock price of announcing firms. They also significantly raise the probability of price co-jumps in non-announcing firms and the market. We find that returns from a post-announcement trading strategy are consistent with efficient price formation after 2016.

econ.EM↗

arXiv2024

Forecasting with panel data: Estimation uncertainty versus parameter heterogeneity

We provide a comprehensive examination of the predictive performance of panel forecasting methods based on individual, pooling, fixed effects, and empirical Bayes estimation, and propose optimal weights for forecast combination schemes. We consider linear panel data models, allowing for weakly exogenous regressors and correlated heterogeneity. We quantify the gains from exploiting panel data and demonstrate how forecasting performance depends on the degree of parameter heterogeneity, whether such heterogeneity is correlated with the regressors, the goodness of fit of the model, and the dimensions of the data. Monte Carlo simulations and empirical applications to house prices and CPI inflation show that empirical Bayes and forecast combination methods perform best overall and rarely produce the least accurate forecasts for individual series.

econ.EM↗

arXiv2022

Can Two Forecasts Have the Same Conditional Expected Accuracy?

The approach for testing equal predictive accuracy for pairs of forecasting models proposed by Giacomini and White (2006) assumes that the parameters of the underlying forecasting models are estimated using a rolling window of fixed width and incorporates the effect of parameter estimation in the null hypothesis. We show that a necessary and sufficient condition for the conditionally expected loss differential of two forecasting models to be a martingale difference sequence is that the outcome is a simple average of the two forecasts. When the forecasts contain parameter estimation errors, this means that the conditional mean of the outcome has to be a function of past estimation errors--a condition that fails in many situations. We also show that the null can fail even in the absence of parameter estimation for many types of stochastic processes in common use.

stat.ME↗