Measuring Expectations

David Kjellberg
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David Kjellberg: Department of Economics, Postal: Uppsala University, P.O. Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden

No 2006:9, Working Paper Series from Uppsala University, Department of Economics

Abstract: To evaluate measures of expectations I examine and compare some of the most common methods for capturing expectations: the futures method which utilizes financial market prices, the VAR forecast method, and the survey method. I study average expectations on the Federal funds rate target, and the main findings can be summarized as follows: i) the survey measure and the futures measure are highly correlated; the correlation coefficient is 0.81 which indicates that the measures capture the same phenomenon, ii) the survey measure consistently overestimates the realized changes in the interest rate, iii) the VAR forecast method shows little resemblance with the other methods.

Keywords: Interest rates; expectations; futures; VAR forecasts; survey data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E43 E44 E47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2006-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cba, nep-fmk, nep-for and nep-mac
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