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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Foilsithe in: | MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 32-2010) |
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Formáid: | Arbeit |
Teanga: | Béarla |
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Philipps-Universität Marburg
2023
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Achoimre: | 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. |
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Cur síos fisiciúil: | 10 Seiten |
ISSN: | 1867-3678 |
DOI: | 10.17192/es2024.0062 |