Chang, Chia-Lin; Franses, Philip Hans; McAleer, Michael - 2013
Many macroeconomic forecasts and forecast updates like those from IMF and OECD typically involve both a model component …. If forecast updates are progressive, forecast updates should become more accurate, on average, as the actual value is … approached. Otherwise, forecast updates would be neutral. The paper proposes a methodology to test whether macroeconomic forecast …