Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
997549 International Journal of Forecasting 2012 12 Pages PDF
Abstract

We present a novel approach to assessing the attentiveness of professional forecasters to news about the macroeconomy. We find evidence that professional forecasters, taken as a group, do not always update their estimates of the current state of the economy to reflect the latest releases of revised estimates of key data.

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Do professional forecasters pay attention to data releases?
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