Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/103190 
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Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
DEP (Socioeconomics) Discussion Papers - Macroeconomics and Finance Series No. 3/2013
Publisher: 
Hamburg University, Department Socioeconomics, Hamburg
Abstract: 
This paper aims at evaluating individual expectation accuracy of professional forecasters for 57 U.S., European, and German macroeconomic indicators over the period 1999-2010. The empirical analysis shows that initial announcements are partly considerably revised, and that some revisions occur systematically. Taking into account whether announcements are revised systematically and whether economists (assumingly) aim at forecasting the initial release or the latest revision, signi cant differences can be observed with regard to forecasters' expectation errors. In general, forecasters that are (assumingly) aiming to predict the latest revisions of German indicators are able to form better forecasts if these indicators are revised systematically. Though to a lower extent, this relationship is also observable regarding U.S. indicators. Forecasters' disagreement about fundamentals is higher during recessions and when stock markets are volatile.
Subjects: 
Rational expectations
Macroeconomic indicators
Disagreement
Survey analysis
Real-time data
JEL: 
D81
D84
E17
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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