To aggregate, pool, or neither: Testing the rational-expectations hypothesis using survey data

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 278-291

  Bonham, Carl S ^a   Cohen, Richard H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b LYON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation bias; Heterogeneity bias; Microhomogeneity; Survey forecast

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035616668     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/073500101681019936     Document Type: Article

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