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On the Origins of Forecast Walk-Downs: A Macro-to-Micro Perspective.
| Taitara: | On the Origins of Forecast Walk-Downs: A Macro-to-Micro Perspective. |
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| Ngā kaituhi: | Patatoukas, Panos N.1 (AUTHOR) panos@haas.berkeley.edu, Yezegel, Ari2 (AUTHOR), Zeng, Jieyin3 (AUTHOR) |
| Puna: | Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance. Jul2023, Vol. 38 Issue 3, p676-705. 30p. 9 Charts, 3 Graphs. |
| Whakarāpopotonga: | We document a walk-down in gross domestic product (GDP) growth projections that is akin to that in sell-side analysts' earnings forecasts. While the walk-down in earnings forecasts has been generally attributed to the strategic interplay between corporate managers and sell-side analysts, professional macro forecasters affiliated with the Federal Reserve are less susceptible to outside pressure. Our evidence shows that countercyclical variation in forecasting difficulty, due to asymmetry in the steepness of economic downturns relative to upturns, is relevant in explaining the walk-down in macro forecasts. Without rejecting the expectations game between managers and sell-side analysts, our article offers a more auspicious characterization of forecast walk-downs whereby such patterns can surface even without conditioning on strategic incentives for bias. An overarching implication is that research on the properties of sell-side analysts' forecasts should consider strategic incentives for bias interacted with information about the state of the economy and heterogeneity in the cyclical exposure of individual firms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Ngā kupu marau: | *Securities analysts, *Earnings forecasting, *Forecasting, *Gross domestic product, *Recessions, *Business forecasting, Incentive (Psychology) |
| Kamupene/Hinonga: | Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) |
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| ISSN: | 0148558X |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0148558X211004309 |
| Pātengi raraunga: | Business Source Complete |
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