Fifty years ago, China sent more than 16 million urban youths aged 16-19 to rural villages to work and they spent … between 1 and 10 years there. This is known as the "sent-down youth" (SDY) program. This paper examines how this internal …

Using data from the ECB's Survey of Professional Forecasters, we investigate the reporting practices of survey … inflation rates. Most importantly, for each survey round, the aggregate survey results based on the average of the individual … point predictions are also biased. These findings cast doubt on combined survey measures that average individual point …