Predictions of growth in U.S. corporate profits: Asymmetric vs. symmetric loss
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FOMC; Survey of Professional Forecasters; Unbiasedness; Directional forecast accuracy; Loss structure;All these keywords.
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- G17 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Financial Forecasting and Simulation
- G30 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - General
- E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
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