Rangvid, Jesper; Schmeling, Maik; Schrimpf, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
A sizeable literature reports that financial market analysts and forecasters herd for reputational reasons. Using new data from a large survey of professional forecasters' expectations about stock market movements, we find strong evidence that the expected average of all forecasters' forecasts...