Evaluating the predictive accuracy of vo
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Jose A. Lopez
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Article
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2001
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Standard statistical loss functions, such as mean-squared error, are commonly used for evaluating ยฎnancial volatility forecasts. In this paper, an alternative evaluation framework, based on probability scoring rules that can be more closely tailored to a forecast user's decision problem, is proposed