Franses, Philip HansChang, Chia-LinMcAleer, Michael2023-06-202023-06-202011-06https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/49013The authors are grateful for the helpful comments and suggestions of seminar participants at Complutense University of Madrid. For financial support, the second author acknowledges the National Science Council, Taiwan, and the third author wishes to thank the Australian Research Council, National Science Council, Taiwan, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.It is common practice to evaluate fixed-event forecast revisions in macroeconomics by regressing current revisions on one-period lagged revisions. Under weak-form efficiency, the correlation between the current and one-period lagged revisions should be zero. The empirical findings in the literature suggest that the null hypothesis of zero correlation between the current and one-period lagged revisions is rejected quite frequently, where the correlation can be either positive or negative. In this paper we propose a methodology to be able to interpret such non-zero correlations in a straightforward manner. Our approach is based on the assumption that forecasts can be decomposed into both an econometric model and expert intuition. The interpretation of the sign of the correlation between the current and one-period lagged revisions depends on the process governing intuition, and the correlation between intuition and news.engAtribución-NoComercial 3.0 Españahttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/es/technical reporthttps://www.ucm.es/icaeopen accessC22C53E27E37Evaluating forecastsMacroeconomic forecastingRationalityIntuitionWeak-form efficiencyFixed-event forecasts.Econometría (Economía)5302 Econometría