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Heterogeneous expectations among professional forecasters
Conrad, Christian; Lahiri, Kajal - 2023
Macroeconomic expectations of various economic agents are characterized by substantial cross-sectional heterogeneity. In this paper, we focus on expectations heterogeneity among professional forecasters. We first present stylized facts and discuss theoretical explanations for heterogeneous...
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An investigation into the uncertainty revision process of professional forecasters
Clements, Michael P.; Rich, Robert W.; Tracy, Joseph S. - 2023
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Exponential growth bias in the prediction of COVID-19 spread and economic expectation
Banerjee, Ritwik; Majumdar, Priyama - 2020
errors either in the form of numbers or graphs; and in the fourth treatment (Forecast), participants are offered a forecast … to Baseline, b) Feedback-N, Feedback-G, and Forecast significantly reduce bias relative to both Baseline and Step, c) the …
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Optimally imprecise memory and biased forecasts
Silveira, Rava Azeredo da; Sung, Yeji; Woodford, Michael - 2020
nature of forecast biases depends on these parameters. The model provides a simple explanation for a number of features of …
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Using Sentiment Surveys to Predict GDP Growth and Stock Returns
Guzman, Giselle - 2012
This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them, are relevant to forecasting economic growth and stock returns, and whether they contain information that is orthogonal to macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16...
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Are oil price forecasters finally right? : regressive expectations toward more fundamental values of the oil price
Reitz, Stefan; Ruelke, Jan-Christoph; Stadtmann, Georg - 2009
We use oil price forecasts from the Consensus Economic Forecast poll to analyze how forecasters form their expectations … role. Standard measures of forecast accuracy reveal forecasters' underperformance relative to the random walk benchmark …. However, this result appears to be biased due to peso problems. -- Oil price ; survey data ; forecast bias ; peso problem …
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Do survey-based expectations mimic inflation in Nigeria?
Ibrahim, Adamu - In: CBN journal of applied statistics 6 (2015) 1, pp. 301-315
Survey-based expectations are mostly used by monetary authorities for inflation forecasts and evaluation of the credibility of their inflation fighting policies. It is also an important link in the monetary policy transmission mechanism. This study examined the predictive ability of business...
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Noisy information and fundamental disagreement
Andrade, Philippe; Crump, Richard K.; Eusepi, Stefano; … - 2013
We study the term structure of disagreement of professional forecasters for key macroeconomic variables. We document a novel set of facts: 1) forecasters disagree at all horizons, including the very long run; 2) the shape of the term structure of disagreement differs markedly across variables:...
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Expectations Data and the Predictive Value of Interim Reporting
Abdel-Khalik, A. Rashad - 2014
This paper provides an adaptive model depicting the interaction between the disclosure of interim earnings and the accuracy of earnings forecasts that are made public by security analysts. Our results indicate that accuracy of annual earnings forecasts is highly correlated with the announcement...
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Optimal foresight
Chahrour, Ryan; Jurado, Kyle - 2020
Agents have foresight when they receive information about a random process above and beyond the information contained in its current and past history. In this paper, we propose an information-theoretic measure of the quantity of foresight in an information structure, and show how to separate...
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