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  #  Management or the art of anticipating: the use of forecasting models 



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 Forecasting is a tool used in business and industry to predict the future behaviour of customers. One of the most popular statistical models of forecasting is the so-called damped trend model.

**[Giacomo Sbrana (NEOMA Business School)](https://neoma-bs.com/professors/sbrana-giacomo-2)** and Andrea Silvestrini (Bank of Italy) use a real macroeconomic data set with 270 one-time series and covering almost 50 economies, to propose an approach that might outperform the standard one. A simple, rigorous and easy to use tool that can help the practice of predicting future data.

## Learn more

[**Forecasting with the damped trend model using the structural approach,** Giacomo Sbrana, Andrea Silvestrini. *International Journal of Production Economics,* Volume 226, August 2020, 107654.](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0925527320300505)



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