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A priori, the use of this mean could be justified when all the forecasters have had the same performance in the past or when they do not have enough information. In this paper, we explore the possibility of using entropy econometrics as a procedure for combining forecasts that allows to discriminate between bad and good forecasters, even in the situation of little information. With this purpose, the data-weighted prior (DWP) estimator proposed by Golan (2001) is used for forecaster selection and simultaneous parameter estimation in linear statistical models. In particular, we examine the ability of the DWP estimator to effectively select relevant forecasts among all forecasts. We test the accuracy of the proposed model with a simulation exercise and compare its ex ante forecasting performance with other methods used to combine forecasts. The obtained results suggest that the proposed method dominates other combining methods, such as equal-weight averages or ordinal least squares methods, among others.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e21040429","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,24]],"date-time":"2019-04-24T03:14:28Z","timestamp":1556075668000},"page":"429","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["A Data-Weighted Prior Estimator for Forecast Combination"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9192-8901","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Esteban","family":"Fern\u00e1ndez-V\u00e1zquez","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"REGIOlab and Department of Applied Economics, University of Oviedo, Faculty of Economics and Business, Avda. del Cristo, s\/n, 33006 Oviedo, Spain"}]},{"given":"Blanca","family":"Moreno","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"REGIOlab and Department of Applied Economics, University of Oviedo, Faculty of Economics and Business, Avda. del Cristo, s\/n, 33006 Oviedo, Spain"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2560-3273","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Geoffrey J.D.","family":"Hewings","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Regional Economics Applications Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 607 S. 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