Arbeitspapier

Estimating fundamental cross-section dispersion from fixed event forecasts

A couple of recent papers have shifted the focus towards disagreement of professional forecasters. When dealing with survey data that is sampled at a frequency higher than annual and that includes only fixed event forecasts, e.g. expectation of average annual growth rates measures of disagreement across forecasters naturally are distorted by a component that mainly reflects the time varying forecast horizon. We use data from the Survey of Professional Forecasters, which reports both fixed event and fixed horizon forecasts, to evaluate different methods for extracting the fundamental component of disagreement. Based on the paper's results we suggest two methods to estimate dispersion measures from panels of fixed event forecasts: a moving average transformation of the underlying forecasts and estimation with constant forecast-horizon- effects. Both models are easy to handle and deliver equally well performing results, which show a surprisingly high correlation (up to 0:94) with the true dispersion.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 787

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models
Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
Thema
Survey data
dispersion
disagreement
fixed event forecasts
Konjunkturprognose
Prognoseverfahren
Wirtschaftspolitische Beratung
Erwartungstheorie
Meinung
Befragung
Schätzung
USA

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Dovern, Jonas
Fritsche, Ulrich
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2008

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Dovern, Jonas
  • Fritsche, Ulrich
  • Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)

Entstanden

  • 2008

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