Research Staff

Raffaella Giacomini

cemmap and UCL

Raffaella is a Professor of Economics at University College London. Her recent research focuses on: Predictive Ability Testing, Forecast Evaluation, Forecasting in a Changing Economy, Model Selection, Density and Quantile Forecasting.

Selected Publications

Anchoring the yield curve using survey expectations

The dynamic behavior of the term structure of interest rates is difficult to replicate with models, […]

Carlo Altavilla, Raffaella Giacomini, Giuseppe Ragusa
15 October 2013 | CWP52/13
Generalized method of moments with latent variables

The contribution of generalized method of moments (Hansen and Singleton, 1982) was to allow frequentist inference […]

Ron Gallant, Raffaella Giacomini, Giuseppe Ragusa
7 October 2013 | CWP50/13
Bond returns and market expectations

A well-documented empirical result is that market expectations extracted from futures contracts on the federal funds […]

Carlo Altavilla, Riccardo Costantini, Raffaella Giacomini
24 May 2013 | CWP20/13

Latest version

Bond Returns and Market Expectations
Carlo Altavilla, Raffaella Giacomini, Riccardo Costantini
1 October 2014 | Journal Article
The relationship between DSGE and VAR models

This chapter reviews the literature on the econometric relationship between DSGE and VAR models from the […]

Raffaella Giacomini
24 May 2013 | CWP21/13

Latest version

The relationship between DSGE and VAR models
Raffaella Giacomini
1 December 2013 | Journal Article
Model comparisons in unstable environments

The goal of this paper is to develop formal tests to evaluate the relative in-sample performance […]

Raffaella Giacomini, Barbara Rossi
7 June 2012 | CWP13/12

Latest version

Model comparisons in unstable environments
Raffaella Giacomini, Barbara Rossi
31 May 2016 | Journal Article
A warp-speed method for conducting Monte Carlo experiments involving bootstrap estimators

We analyze fast procedures for conducting Monte Carlo experiments involving bootstrap estimators, providing formal results establishing […]

Raffaella Giacomini, Dimitris N. Politis, Halbert White
31 May 2012 | CWP11/12

Latest version

A warp-speed method for conducting Monte Carlo experiments involving bootstrap estimators
Raffaella Giacomini, Dimitris N. Politis, Halbert White
1 June 2013 | Journal Article