An Evaluation of the World Economic Outlook Forecasts

By Allan G. Timmermann. Social Science Research Network, 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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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): “(2001), who additionally examines data for developing countries; Timmermann (2007) ,”
• The Prospects for Sustained Growth in Africa (2007, background): “3 The IMF growth forecasts for 2007 are 6.3 percent for GDP and 4.4 percent for GDP per capita, though it should be acknowledged that there is a well-established optimistic bias in these forecasts: see Timmermann (2006).”