Are Market Forecasts Rational?
20 Pages Posted: 21 Mar 2001 Last revised: 21 Nov 2022
Date Written: July 1980
Abstract
This paper conducts tests of the rationality of both inflation and short-term interest rate forecasts in the bond market. These tests are developed with the theory of efficient markets and make use of security price data to infer information on market expectations.
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