Economics/Finance seminar: Subjective and Ex Post Forecasting Uncertainty: US Inflation and Output Growth
Starts
Mar 14, 2013 12:30 PM
Finishes
Mar 14, 2013 02:00 PM
Venue
Malet Street, Room 745
Booking details
Free entry; first come, first seated
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Event description
Speaker: Michael Clements (University of Warwick)
Abstract
Survey respondents who make point predictions and histogram forecasts of macro-variables reveal both how uncertain they believe the future to be, ex ante, as well as their ex post performance. Macroeconomic forecasters tend to be overconfident at horizons of a year or more, but over-estimate the uncertainty surrounding their predictions at short horizons.
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