Assessing the temporal variation of macroeconomic forecasts by a panel of changing composition
构成变化的预测者面板中宏观预测时间变化的评估
Abstract This paper calls attention to the problem of changing panel composition in surveys of forecasters and documents the problem in the Survey of Professional Forecasters. To study the temporal variation of forecasts, we recommend analysis of the time series of predictions made by individual forecasters. This makes transparent the heterogeneity of the panel and avoids improper inferences due to changing panel composition. In the absence of knowledge of the process…