Harris Inside the Crystal Ball

How to Make and Use Forecasts
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-86510-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten, E-Book

A practical guide to understanding economic forecasts
In Inside the Crystal Ball: How to Make and UseForecasts, UBS Chief U.S. Economist Maury Harris helps readersimprove their own forecasting abilities by examining the elementsand processes that characterize successful and failed forecasts.The book:
* Provides insights from Maury Harris, named amongBloomberg's 50 Most Influential People in Global Finance.
* Demonstrates "best practices" in the assembly andevaluation of forecasts. Harris walks readers through thereal-life steps he and other successful forecasters take inpreparing their projections. These valuable procedures can helpforecast users evaluate forecasts and forecasters as inputs formaking their own specific business and investment decisions.
* Emphasizes the critical role of judgment in improvingprojections derived from purely statistical methodologies.Harris explores the prerequisites for sound forecastingjudgment--a good sense of history and an understanding ofcontemporary theoretical frameworks--in readable andilluminating detail.
* Addresses everyday forecasting issues, including thecredibility of government statistics and analyses, fickleconsumers, and volatile business spirits. Harrisalso offers procedural guidelines for special circumstances, suchas natural disasters, terrorist threats, gyrating oil and stockprices, and international economic crises.
* Evaluates major contemporary forecastingissues--including the now commonplace hypothesis ofsustained economic sluggishness, possible inflation outcomes in anenvironment of falling unemployment, and projecting interest rateswhen central banks implement unprecedented low interest rate andquantitative easing (QE) policies.
* Brings to life Harris's own experiences and thoseof other leading economists in his almost four-decade career as aprofessional economist and forecaster. Dr. Harris presents hispersonal recipes for long-term credibility and commercial successto anyone offering advice about the future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harris, Maury

Über Autor(innen)

MAURY HARRIS is a Managing Director and Chief Economistfor the Americas for the UBS investment bank. Dr. Harris has ledforecasting teams ranked as the most accurate in the country infour separate years over the past decade. In addition, he has beennamed numerous times to the Institutional Investor (II) All-AmericaResearch Team over the past two decades. Dr. Harris is a pastPresident of the Forecaster's Club of New York. Prior to the UBS AGacquisition of PaineWebber Incorporated, he was the Chief Economistfor PaineWebber. Before that, Dr. Harris worked for the FederalReserve Bank of New York and The Bank for InternationalSettlements. Dr. Harris holds a PhD in economics from ColumbiaUniversity, an MA in economics from Columbia University, and a BAin economics from the University of Texas, where he graduated PhiBeta Kappa. He is married with two children.