Leaning in Real Time: Theory and empircal Evidence from the Term Structure of Survey Forecasts.

We develop an econometric framework for understanding how agents form expectations about economic variables with a partially predictable component. Our model incorporates the effect of measurement errors and heterogeneity in individual forecasters’ prior beliefs and their information signals and als...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Patton, A, Timmermann, A
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance 2008