Non-fundamental expectations and economic fluctuations: Evidence from professional forecasts

Journal of Macroeconomics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 446-460

  Choy, Keen Meng ^a   Leong, Kenneth ^b   Tay, Anthony S ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Economist Service   (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Economic fluctuations; Non fundamental expectations; Sunspots; Survey of professional forecasters; Vector autoregressions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747659743     PISSN: 01640704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2004.07.004     Document Type: Article

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