Fundamental Disagreement: How Much and Why?

Richard Crump and Stefano Eusepi

No 20160113, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: Everyone disagrees, even professional forecasters, especially about big economic questions. Has potential output growth changed since the financial crisis? Are we bound for a period of “secular stagnation”? Will the European economy rebound? When is inflation getting back to mandate-consistent level? In this post, we document to what degree professional forecasters disagree and discuss potential reasons why. In a recent working paper, we document a set of novel facts about disagreement among professional forecasters over the last thirty years. We focus on the “trinity” of U.S. output growth, inflation, and the policy rate for different forecast horizons with particular emphasis on the very long run.

Keywords: Disagreement; Survey Forecasts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-01-13
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