The Accuracy of Routine Forecasts

Gordon Pepper
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Gordon Pepper: City University Business School

Chapter 6 in Inside Thatcher’s Monetarist Revolution, 1998, pp 50-52 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The simplest and conventional way of assessing the accuracy of a forecast is to compare the prediction of growth of real GDP for the year ahead with the outturn and calculate the error. Such exercises are carried out regularly. NIESR and the Treasury publish their results.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-333-99547-1_6

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