The Livingston survey data are used to investigate whether economists’ forecasts are consistent with the Taylor …

We used the Wall Street Journal survey data for the period 2006–2012 to analyze whether forecasts of house prices and … housing starts provide evidence of (anti-)herding of forecasters. Forecasts are consistent with herding (anti-herding) of … forecasters if forecasts are biased towards (away from) the consensus forecast. We found that anti-herding is prevalent among …

between professional economists' forecasts of the growth rate of money supply, the inflation rate, the growth rate of real …' forecasts for fourteen Asian-Pacific and Central and South-Eastern European countries, we find that the correlations between … professional economists' forecasts are broadly consistent with the money demand function implied by the macroeconomic model. …