A big hole in your list is forecasting of financial markets which is highly lucrative (when it works) and so attracts a considerable amount of effort and talent.
Good point. I’d looked at financial market forecasting along with macroeconomic forecasting, when I was investigating survey-based macroeconomic forecasting. I have some of the collected material, but I don’t think I ever wrote it up. Thanks for reminding me! I’ll add it to this post later.
A big hole in your list is forecasting of financial markets which is highly lucrative (when it works) and so attracts a considerable amount of effort and talent.
Good point. I’d looked at financial market forecasting along with macroeconomic forecasting, when I was investigating survey-based macroeconomic forecasting. I have some of the collected material, but I don’t think I ever wrote it up. Thanks for reminding me! I’ll add it to this post later.