Arbeitspapier

Forecaster overconfidence and market survey performance

We document using the ZEW panel of German stock market forecasters that weak forecasters tend to be overconfident in the sense that they provide extreme forecasts and their confidence intervals are less likely to contain eventual realizations. Moderate filters based on forecast accuracy over short rolling windows are somewhat successful in improving predictability. While poor performance can be due to various factors, a filter based on a prior tendency to provide extreme forecasts also improves predictability.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 15-029

Classification
Wirtschaft
Financial Forecasting and Simulation
Subject
Overconfidence
Forecasting Performance
Stock Market

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Deaves, Richard
Lei, Jin
Schröder, Michael
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
(where)
Mannheim
(when)
2015

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-393411
Last update
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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Deaves, Richard
  • Lei, Jin
  • Schröder, Michael
  • Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)

Time of origin

  • 2015

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