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
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 15-029
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Financial Forecasting and Simulation
- Subject
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Overconfidence
Forecasting Performance
Stock Market
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Deaves, Richard
Lei, Jin
Schröder, Michael
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
- (where)
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Mannheim
- (when)
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2015
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-393411
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Deaves, Richard
- Lei, Jin
- Schröder, Michael
- Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
Time of origin
- 2015