Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/98178 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series: Business and Law No. 05
Publisher: 
Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt Research Institute for Business and Law, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper applies combining forecasts of air travel demand generated from the same model but over different estimation windows. The combination approach used resorts to Pesaran and Pick (2011), but the empirical application is extended in several ways. The forecasts are based on a seasonal Box-Jenkins model (SARIMA), which is adequate to forecast monthly air travel demand with distinct seasonal patterns at the largest German airport Frankfurt am Main. Furthermore, forecasts with forecast horizons from one to twelve months-ahead, which are based on different average estimation windows, expanding windows and single rolling windows, are compared with baseline forecasts based on an expanding window of the observations after a structural break. The forecast exercise shows that the average window forecasts mostly outperform the alternative single window forecasts.
Subjects: 
Air travel demand
Combination of forecasts
Estimation windows
Structural breaks
JEL: 
C22
C53
L93
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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