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100 1 _aBordalo, Pedro.
245 1 0 _aOver-reaction in Macroeconomic Expectations /
_cPedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli, Yueran Ma, Andrei Shleifer.
260 _aCambridge, Mass.
_bNational Bureau of Economic Research
_c2018.
300 _a1 online resource:
_billustrations (black and white);
490 1 _aNBER working paper series
_vno. w24932
500 _aAugust 2018.
520 3 _aWe study the rationality of individual and consensus professional forecasts of macroeconomic and financial variables using the methodology of Coibion and Gorodnichenko (2015), which examines predictability of forecast errors from forecast revisions. We report two key findings: forecasters typically over-react to their individual news, while consensus forecasts under-react to average forecaster news. To reconcile these findings, we combine the diagnostic expectations model of belief formation from Bordalo, Gennaioli, and Shleifer (2018) with Woodford's (2003) noisy information model of belief dispersion. The forward looking nature of diagnostic expectations yields additional implications, which we also test and confirm. A structural estimation exercise indicates that our model captures important variation in the data, yielding a value for the belief distortion parameter similar to estimates obtained in other settings
530 _aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538 _aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588 0 _aPrint version record
690 7 _aE03 - Behavioral Macroeconomics
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690 7 _aE17 - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690 7 _aE32 - Business Fluctuations • Cycles
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690 7 _aE37 - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
700 1 _aGennaioli, Nicola.
_911246
700 1 _aMa, Yueran.
700 1 _aShleifer, Andrei.
_920697
710 2 _aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 _aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)
_vno. w24932.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w24932
856 _yAcceso en lĂ­nea al DOI
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w24932
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