Bofinger, Peter; Schmidt, Robert - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Bayerische … - 2003
The study analyses the characteristics of professional exchange rate forecasts for the /US-$ rate. The results indicate … that the quality of forecasts produced by profes-sional economists is rather poor and incompatible with the rational … expectations hy-pothesis. This dismal result is according to our analysis attributed to the fact that professional forecasts are to …