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Disagreement versus uncertainty: evidence from distribution forecasts

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Disagreement versus uncertainty: evidence from distribution forecasts. / Krueger, Fabian; Nolte, Ingmar.
In: Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 72, No. Suppl., 11.2016, p. 172-186.

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Krueger, F & Nolte, I 2016, 'Disagreement versus uncertainty: evidence from distribution forecasts', Journal of Banking and Finance, vol. 72, no. Suppl., pp. 172-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2015.05.007

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Krueger F, Nolte I. Disagreement versus uncertainty: evidence from distribution forecasts. Journal of Banking and Finance. 2016 Nov;72(Suppl.):172-186. Epub 2015 Jun 20. doi: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2015.05.007

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Krueger, Fabian ; Nolte, Ingmar. / Disagreement versus uncertainty : evidence from distribution forecasts. In: Journal of Banking and Finance. 2016 ; Vol. 72, No. Suppl. pp. 172-186.

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title = "Disagreement versus uncertainty: evidence from distribution forecasts",
abstract = "We use a cross-section of economic survey forecasts to predict the distribution of US macro variables in real time. This generalizes the existing literature, which uses disagreement (i.e., the cross-sectional variance of survey forecasts) to predict uncertainty (i.e., the conditional variance of future macroeconomic quantities). Our results show that cross-sectional information can be helpful for distribution forecasting, but this information needs to be modeled in a statistically efficient way in order to avoid overfitting. A simple one-parameter model which exploits timevariation in the cross-section of survey point forecasts is found to perform well in practice.",
keywords = "Forecasting, Survey data, Density forecasting, Disagreement, Uncertainty",
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KW - Disagreement

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