The Measurement and Behavior of Uncertainty: Evidence from the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters
不确定性的测量与行为:欧洲央行专业预测者调查证据
We examine matched point and density forecasts of output growth, inflation and unemployment from the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters. We construct measures of uncertainty from individual histograms, and find that the measures display countercyclical behavior and have increased across all forecast horizons since 2007. We also derive measures of forecast dispersion and forecast accuracy, and find that they are not reliable proxies for uncertainty. There is, however,…