Macroeconomic forecasts and microeconomic forecasters

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 265-280

  Lamont, Owen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Expectations; Forecasters; Herding; Incentives; Reputation; Strategic behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036215501     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-2681(01)00219-0     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Herding over the career
2. A simple model of herd behavior
3. Models of inflation expectations formation: A comparison of household and economist forecasts
4. Career concerns of mutual fund managers
5. Reputation acquisition in debt markets
6. Why are professional forecasters biased? Agency versus behavioral explanations
7. New hope for the expectations hypothesis of the term structure of interest rates
8. Specification tests in econometrics
9. Wall street economists: Are they worth their salt?
10. Managerial incentive problems: A dynamic perspective
11. Security analysts' career concerns and herding of earnings forecasts
12. Herding among investment newsletters: Theory and evidence
13. Foreign exchange rate expectations: Micro survey data
14. The academic preparation of economists employed by commercial and investment banks
15. Testing the rationality of price forecasts: New evidence from panel data
16. The impact of institutional trading on stock prices
17. Why do forecasts differ?
18. The provision of incentives in firms
19. Impetuous youngsters and jaded oldtimers: An analysis of behavioral decision-making rules
20. Herd behavior and investment
21. The new ASA-NBER survey of forecasts by economic statisticians
22. Rational expectations and macroeconomic forecasts
23. Twenty-two years of the ASA-NBER quarterly economic outlook surveys: Aspects and comparisons of forecasting performance
24. Consensus and uncertainty in economic prediction
25. Corporate conservatism and relative compensation