Yufeng Han
ANNALS OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE Vol. 11 Issue 1, Pages: 1–33

Recent studies provide strong statistical evidence challenging the existence of out-of-sample return predictability. The economic significance of return
predictability is also controversial. In this paper, we find significant economic gains for dynamic trading strategies based on return predictability when ap-
propriate portfolio constraints are imposed. We findthat imposingappropriate portfolio constraints is critical for obtaining economic profits, which seems to
explain the contradictory findings about economic significance in the literature. We also compare the performance of several predictive models including
the VAR, the VAR-GARCH, and the (semi)nonparametric models and find that the simple VAR model performs similarly to other more complex models.