How useful are the forecasts of intergovernmental agencies? The IMF and OECD versus the consensus

By Roy Batchelor. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance

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• The ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF) - A Review After Eight Years' Experience (2007, background): “24 See for example, Golob (1994) for US data, Crawford and Kasumovich (1996) for Canadian data or Kontonikas (2004) for UK data.”
• Accuracy, Unbiasedness and Efficiency of Professional Macroeconomic Forecasts: An empirical Comparison for the G7 (2011, unknown): “…for developing countries; Timmermann (2007), who analyzes the performances of IMF forecasts from the World Economic Outlook for various countries; Batchelor (2001), who compares the forecasts made by the IMF and the OECD to private sector forecasts; and Boero, Smith, and Wallis (2008a,b), who…”