Do FOMC Members Herd?

Twice a year FOMC members submit forecasts for growth, unemplyoment and inflation to be published in the Humphrey-Hawkins Report to Congress. In this paper we use individual FOMC forecasts to assess whether these forecasts exhibit herding behavior, a pattern often found in private sector forecasts....

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Argitaratua izan da:MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 32-2010)
Egile Nagusiak: Rülke, Jan-Christoph, Tillmann, Peter
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Argitaratua: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2023
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Gaia:Twice a year FOMC members submit forecasts for growth, unemplyoment and inflation to be published in the Humphrey-Hawkins Report to Congress. In this paper we use individual FOMC forecasts to assess whether these forecasts exhibit herding behavior, a pattern often found in private sector forecasts. While growth and unemployment forecast do not show herding behavior, the inflation forecasts show strong evidence of anti-herding, i.e. FOMC members intentionally scatter their forecasts around the consensus. Interestingly, anti-herding is more important for nonvoting members than for voters.
Deskribapen fisikoa:10 Seiten
ISSN:1867-3678
DOI:10.17192/es2024.0062