Education
Ph.D. Economics
University of Wisconsin–Madison
1998
B.S. Mathematics
University of Kansas
1989
Contact Info
Phone: (314) 444-8594
Fax: (314) 444-8731
Email: Michael.W.McCracken@stls.frb.org
Research Division
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
P.O. Box 442
St. Louis, MO 63166-0442
For media inquiries contact:
Ben C. Hardaway
mediainquiries@stls.frb.org
Office: (314) 444-8783
Cell: (314) 341-2714
Michael W. McCracken
Articles Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals
"Reality Checks and Nested Forecast Model Comparisons"
with Todd E. Clark
FORTHCOMING: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
"Testing for Unconditional Predictive Ability"
with Todd E. Clark
FORTHCOMING: Oxford Handbook on Economic Forecasting
"In-Sample Tests of Predictive Ability: A New Approach"
with Todd E. Clark
FORTHCOMING: Journal of Econometrics
"Averaging Forecasts from VARs with Uncertain Instabilities"
with Todd E. Clark
Journal of Applied Econometrics, January/February 2010, 25(1), pp. 5-29.
"Combining Forecasts From Nested Models"
with Todd E. Clark
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, June 2009, 71(3), pp. 303-29.
"Improving Forecast Accuracy by Combining Recursive and Rolling Forecasts"
with Todd E. Clark
International Economic Review, May 2009, 50(2), pp. 363-95.
"Tests of Equal Predictive Ability with Real-Time Data"
with Todd E. Clark
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, January 2009, 27(4), pp. 441-54.
"Asymptotics for Out-of-Sample Tests of Granger Causality"
Journal of Econometrics, October 2007, 140(2), pp. 719-52.
"The Predictive Content of the Output Gap for Inflation: Resolving In-Sample and Out-of-Sample Evidence"
with Todd E. Clark
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, August 2006, 38(5), pp. 1127-48.
"Evaluating Direct Multi-Step Forecasts"
with Todd E. Clark
Econometric Reviews, October 2005, 24(4), pp. 369-404.
"Evaluating the Predictability of Exchange Rates using Long-Horizon Regressions: Mind Your p's and q's!"
with Stephen G. Sapp
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, June 2005, 37(3), pp. 473-94.
"The Power of Tests of Predictive Ability in the Presence of Structural Breaks"
with Todd E. Clark
Journal of Econometrics, January 2005, 124(1), pp. 1-31.
"Parameter Estimation and Tests of Equal Forecast Accuracy Between Non-nested Models"
International Journal of Forecasting, July-September 2004, 20(3), pp. 503-14.
"Economic Communication in the 'Lost Decade': News Coverage and the Japanese Recession"
with H. Denis Wu and Shinichi Saito
International Journal for Communication Studies, April 2004, 66(2), pp. 133-49.
"Tests of Equal Forecast Accuracy and Encompassing for Nested Models"
with Todd E. Clark
Journal of Econometrics, November 2001, 105(1), pp. 85-110.
"Robust Out-of-Sample Inference"
Journal of Econometrics, December 2000, 99(2), pp. 195-223.
"Regression-Based Tests of Predictive Ability"
with Kenneth D. West
International Economic Review, November 1998, 39(4), pp. 817-40.