Inattentive professional forecasters

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 967-982

  Andrade, Philippe ^a,b   Le Bihan, Hervé ^a  

^a Banque de France ^*  (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

Disagreement; Expectations; Forecast errors; Imperfect information; Inattention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888360773     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2013.08.005     Document Type: Article

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