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Unbiased Adaptive Expectation Schemes

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  • Antonio Palestrini

    (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)

  • Mauro Gallegati

    (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)

Abstract

There are situations in which the old-fashioned adaptive expectation process seems to provide a good description of agents' behavior (Chow, 2011). Unfortunately, this expectation scheme may not satisfy the necessary rationality condition (unconditional mean-zero error). This paper shows how to simply fix the problem introducing a bias correction term.

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  • Antonio Palestrini & Mauro Gallegati, 2015. "Unbiased Adaptive Expectation Schemes," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 35(2), pages 1185-1190.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-14-00575
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    1. Annarita COLASANTE & Antonio PALESTRINI & Alberto RUSSO & Mauro GALLEGATI, 2015. "Adaptive Expectations with Correction Bias: Evidence from the lab," Working Papers 409, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche (I), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali.
    2. Colasante, Annarita & Palestrini, Antonio & Russo, Alberto & Gallegati, Mauro, 2017. "Adaptive expectations versus rational expectations: Evidence from the lab," International Journal of Forecasting, Elsevier, vol. 33(4), pages 988-1006.
    3. Colasante, Annarita & Palestrini, Antonio & Russo, Alberto & Gallegati, Mauro, 2015. "Heterogeneous Adaptive Expectations and Coordination in a Learning-to-Forecast Experiment," MPRA Paper 66578, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    Adaptive expectations; unbiased errors.;

    JEL classification:

    • D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
    • C2 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables

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