forecast commonly imply that the outturn is expected to lie above [below] the central forecast. Investigating the inflation … informativeness, that is, for a systematic connection between risk assessments and forecast errors. Thus, it seems questionable … whether macroeconomic risk forecasts are meaningful. -- Forecast evaluation ; risk forecasts ; inflation forecasts …

standard deviation of individual forecasts around the median Consensus Forecast as proxy for forecast uncertainty. Our sample … react significantly to inflation forecast uncertainty by reducing their policy rates in times of higher inflation … forecast uncertainty. We conclude with some implications for optimal monetary policy rules and central bank watchers. …

We have argued that from the standpoint of a policy maker, the uncertainty of using the average forecast is not the … that the uncertainty of the average forecast can be expressed as the disagreement among the forecasters plus the volatility … the conceptually correct benchmark forecast uncertainty. …