Testing the rationality of forecast revi
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Masahiro Ashiya
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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We investigate the rationality of forecast revisions made by the IMF and the OECD over the past three decades. We find that 60% of real-GDP forecast series and 37% of GDP-deflator forecast series are consistent with rationality. Forecast smoothing is found in real-GDP forecasts.