<ol> <li>Forecasting Inflation: Jon Faust and Jonathan Wright (Johns Hopkins University) </li> <li>DSGE Model-Based Forecasting: Marco Del Negro (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) and Frank Schorfheide (University of Pennsylvania) </li> <li>Forecasting Output: Marcelle Chauvet (University of California, Riverside) and Simon Potter (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) </li> <li>Nowcasting and the Real Time Data Flow: Marta Banbura (European Central Bank), Domenico Giannone (Universite Libre de Bruxelles), Michele Modugno (University Libre de Bruxelles), and Lucrezia Reichlin (London Business School)</li> <li>Forecasting and Policy Making: Volker Wieland and Maik Wolters (Goethe University, Frankfurt)</li> <li>Forecasting Stock Returns: David Rapach (St. Louis University) and Guofu Zhou (Washington University at St Louis)</li> <li>Forecasting Interest Rates: Gregory Duffee (Johns Hopkins University)</li> <li>Forecasting the Price of Oil: Ron Alquist (Bank of Canada), Lutz Kilian (University of Michigan),and Robert J. Vigfusson (Federal Reserve Board)</li> <li>Forecasting Real Estate Prices: Eric Ghysels (University of North Carolina), Alberto Plazzi (Lugano), Rossen Valkanov (University of California, San Diego) and Walter Torous (University of California, Los Angeles)</li> <li>Forecasting with Option-Implied Information: Peter Christoffersen (University of Toronto), Kris Jacobs (University of Houston), and Bo Young Chang (Bank of Canada)</li> <li>Prediction Markets for Economic Forecasting: Erik Snowberg (Caltech), Justin Wolfers (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania), and Eric Zitzewitz (Dartmouth College)</li> <li>Forecasters’ Objectives and Strategies: Ivan Marinovich (Stanford University), Marco Ottaviani (Northwestern University and Bocconi), and Peter Sorensen (University of Copenhagen)</li> <li>Forecasting Exchange Rates: an Investor Perspective: Michael Melvin, John Prins, and Duncan Shand (BlackRock)</li> <li>Variable Selection in Predictive Regressions: Serena Ng (Columbia University)</li> <li>Forecasting with Bayesian Vector Autoregressions: Sune Karlsson (Orebro University)</li> <li>Copula Methods for Forecasting Multivariate Time Series: Andrew Patton (Duke University)</li> <li>Quantile Prediction: Ivana Komunjer (University of California, San Diego) </li> <li>Panel Data Forecasting: Badi Baltagi (Syracuse University)</li> <li>Forecasting Binary Outcomes: Kajal Lahiri and Liu Yang (State University of New York, Albany)</li> <li>Advances in Forecast Evaluation: Todd Clark (Kansas Fed) and Michael McCracken (St. Louis Fed)</li> <li>Advances in Forecasting under Instability: Barbara Rossi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)</li></ol>