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Data revisions Are not well behaved

We document the empirical properties of revisions to major macroeconomic variables in the United States. Our findings suggest that they do not satisfy simple desirable statistical properties. In particular, we find that these revisions do not have a zero mean, which indicates that the initial announcements by statistical agencies are biased. We also find that the revisions are quite large compared to the original variables and they are predictable using the information set at the time of the initial announcement, which means that the initial announcements of statistical agencies are not rational forecasts..Printed journal

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PSB lt.dasar - Pascasarjana1
Penerbit The Ohio State University.,
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Subjek Macroeconomics
Statistical data
studies
Bias
Revisions
ISBN/ISSN 222879
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