Uncertainty, information, and disagreement of economic forecasters

DOI10.1080/07474938.2017.1307577OpenAlexW2579111060MaRDI QIDQ5864649

Ehsan S. Soofi, Mehdi Shoja

Publication date: 8 June 2022

Published in: Econometric Reviews (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/07474938.2017.1307577

zbMATH Keywords

entropymutual informationmixture densityBayesian hierarchical modelKullback-Leiblersurvey of professional forecasters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20)

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