Econometric Implications of the Rational Expectations Hypothesis
理性预期假说的计量经济学含义
The implications for applied econometrics of the assumption that unobservable expectations formed rationally in Muth's sense examined. The statistical properties of the resulting models and their distributed lag and time series representations described. Purely extrapolative forecasts of endogenous variables can be constructed, as alternatives to rational expectations, but less efficient. Identification and estimation considered: an order condition is that no more…