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predictive power of disagreement amongst forecasters. The premise is that this variable could signal upcoming structural or … variety of macroeconomic variables, and we use different measurements for the degree of disagreement, together with measures … compared on forecast accuracy. We find that disagreement has predictive power indeed and that this variable can be used to …
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Macroeconomic forecasts are often based on the interaction between econometric models and experts. A forecast that is based only on an econometric model is replicable and may be unbiased, whereas a forecast that is not based only on an econometric model, but also incorporates an expert’s...
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The accuracy of real-time forecasts of macroeconomic variables that are subject to revisions may crucially depend on the choice of data used to compare the forecasts against. We put forward a flexible time - varying parameter regression framework to obtain early estimates of the final value of...
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