Has Macroeconomic Forecasting changed after the Great Recession? - Panel-based Evidence on Accuracy and Forecaster Behaviour from Germany
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Macroeconomic Forecasting; Forecast Error Evaluation; Germany;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
- E37 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
- G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-FOR-2018-05-14 (Forecasting)
- NEP-MAC-2018-05-14 (Macroeconomics)
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