Information Rigidities in Economic Growth Forecasts : Evidence from a Large International Panel /

We examine the behavior of forecasts for real GDP growth using a large panel of individual forecasts from 30 advanced and emerging economies during 1989-2010. Our main findings are as follows. First, our evidence does not support the validity of the sticky information model (Mankiw and Reis, 2002) f...

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Main Author: Dovern, Jonas
Other Authors: Fritsche, Ulrich, Loungani, Prakash, Tamirisa, Natalia
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2013.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2013/056
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