Can rational stubbornness explain forecast biases?
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Forecast efficiency; GDP; Forecasting; Underreaction;All these keywords.
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- E17 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
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