Evaluating current-year forecasts made during the year: a Japanese example

Herman Stekler and Kazuta Sakamoto

Applied Economics Letters, 2010, vol. 17, issue 7, 673-676

Abstract: Forecasts for the current year that are made sometime during the current year are not true annual forecasts because they include already known information for the early part of the year. The current methodology that evaluates these 'forecasts' does not take into account the known information. This article presents a methodology for calculating an implicit forecast for the latter part of a year conditional on the known information. We then apply the procedure to Japanese forecasts for 1988-2003 and analyse some of the characteristics of those predictions.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1080/13504850802297848

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