Government Forecasts of Budget Balances Under Asymmetric Loss: International Evidence
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JEL classification:
- E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
- H50 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - General
- E27 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EEC-2015-02-22 (European Economics)
- NEP-FOR-2015-02-22 (Forecasting)
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