Predictions of growth in U.S. corporate profits: Asymmetric vs. symmetric loss

International Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 222-229

  Baghestani, Hamid ^a   Khallaf, Ashraf ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Directional forecast accuracy; FOMC; Loss structure; Survey of Professional Forecasters; Unbiasedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 82055191570     PISSN: 10590560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iref.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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