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econ.EM2021★ 2 cited

Modeling and Forecasting Intraday Market Returns: a Machine Learning Approach

Iuri H. Ferreira, Marcelo C. Medeiros

In this paper we examine the relation between market returns and volatility measures through machine learning methods in a high-frequency environment. We implement a minute-by-minu…

stat.AP2021

The Impacts of Mobility on Covid-19 Dynamics: Using Soft and Hard Data

Leonardo Martins, Marcelo C. Medeiros

This paper has the goal of evaluating how changes in mobility has affected the infection spread of Covid-19 throughout the 2020-2021 years. However, identifying a "clean" causal re…

stat.AP2021★ 1 cited

Modeling the Evolution of Infectious Diseases with Functional Data Models: The Case of COVID-19 in Brazil

Julian A. A. Collazos, Ronaldo Dias, Marcelo C. Medeiros

In this paper, we apply statistical methods for functional data to explain the heterogeneity in the evolution of number of deaths of Covid-19 over different regions. We treat the c…

econ.EM2021★ 1 cited

The Proper Use of Google Trends in Forecasting Models

Marcelo C. Medeiros, Henrique F. Pires

It is widely known that Google Trends have become one of the most popular free tools used by forecasters both in academics and in the private and public sectors. There are many pap…

econ.EM2021

Bridging factor and sparse models

Jianqing Fan, Ricardo Masini, Marcelo C. Medeiros

Factor and sparse models are two widely used methods to impose a low-dimensional structure in high-dimensions. However, they are seemingly mutually exclusive. We propose a lifting…