Do professional forecasters pay attention to data releases?
Pages 297-308
Abstract
We present a novel approach to assessing the attentiveness of professional forecasters to news about the macroeconomy. We find evidence that professional forecasters, taken as a group, do not always update their estimates of the current state of the economy to reflect the latest releases of revised estimates of key data.
Keywords: Survey expectations
, Data revisions
, Inattention
FULL TEXT LINK
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2011.09.001
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