On the Wisdom of Crowds (of Economists)
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- Francis X. Diebold & Aaron Mora & Minchul Shin, 2025. "On the Wisdom of Crowds (of Economists)," Papers 2503.09287, arXiv.org.
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Keywords
Macroeconomic surveys of professional forecasters; forecast combination; model averaging; equicorrelation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C5 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling
- C8 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs
- E3 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles
- E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-FOR-2025-04-07 (Forecasting)
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