Overfitting in Judgment-based Economic Forecasts : The Case of IMF Growth Projections /

I regress real GDP growth rates on the IMF's growth forecasts and find that IMF forecasts behave similarly to those generated by overfitted models, placing too much weight on observable predictors and underestimating the forces of mean reversion. I identify several such variables that explain f...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Hellwig, Klaus-Peter
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/260
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF