Macroeconomic Survey Expectations

• Main Author: Clements, Michael P. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Texts in Econometrics,
• Subjects: Econometrics.; Macroeconomics.; Behavioral economics.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Behavioral/Experimental Economics.

Why should we be interested in macroeconomic survey expectations? This important book offers an in-depth treatment of this question from a point of view not covered in existing works on time-series econometrics and forecasting. Clements presents the nature of survey data, addresses some of the diffi...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: The Nature of Survey Expectations
• Chapter 3: Working with Forecast Data
• Chapter 4: Assessing the Point Predictions
• Chapter 5: Assessing the Accuracy of the Probability Distributions
• Chapter 6: Consistency of the Point Forecasts and Probability Distributions
• Chapter 7: Macroeconomic Uncertainty - Surveys versus Models?
• Chapter 8: Behavioural Models of Expectations Formation
• Chapter 9: Expectations Shocks and the Macroeconomy.