Are oil price forecasters finally right? Regressive expectations toward more fundamental values of the oil price
We use oil price forecasts from the Consensus Economic Forecast poll to analyze how forecasters form their expectations. Our findings seem to indicate that the extrapolative as well as the regressive expectation formation hypothesis play a role. Standard measures of forecast accuracy reveal forecasters' underperformance relative to the random walk benchmark. However, this result appears to be biased due to peso problems.
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2009
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Authors: | Reitz, Stefan ; Rülke, Jan-Christoph ; Stadtmann, Georg |
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Frankfurt a. M. : Deutsche Bundesbank |
Subject: | Erdölpreis | Sachverständige | Erwartungstheorie | Prognose | Bias | Extremwertanalyse | Welt | Oil price | survey data | forecast bias | peso problem |
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freely available
Series: | Discussion Paper Series 1 ; 2009,32 |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
ISBN: | 978-3-86558-584-4 |
Other identifiers: | 61499229X [GVK] hdl:10419/29652 [Handle] RePEc:zbw:bubdp1:200932 [RePEc] |
Classification: | F31 - Foreign Exchange ; D84 - Expectations; Speculations ; C33 - Models with Panel Data |
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