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Effects of feedback on financial forecasting
Ankara : The Department of Management and the Graduate School of Business Administration of Bilkent Univ., 1996.Thesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 1996.Includes bibliographical references leaves 35-40.The objective of this study is to examine the effects o f feedback on financial forecasting. In
particular, the effects o f simple outcome feedback and cahbration feedback as a type of
perfonuance feedback on the accuracy of probabilistic forecasts of stock pi iccs and market
indices in dichotomous format are analyzed. The study is conducted on subjects comprised
of undergraduate and graduate students from the Faculty of Business Administration at
Bilkent University. The results indicate that feedback, especially calibration feedback, has a
considerable effect on the performance o f forecasters. ImpUcations of these findings for
financial forecasting are discussed and directions for future research are given.Dirimtekin, SerraM.S