House Price Forecasts, Forecaster Herding, and the Recent Crisis

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Christian Pierdzioch, Jan Christoph Rülke, Georg Stadtmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2012-11-01
Series:International Journal of Financial Studies
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2227-7072/1/1/16