Definition: Rational expectations is an assumption in a model: that the agent under study uses a forecasting
mechanism that is as good as is possible given the stochastic processes and
information available to the agent.
Often in essence the rational expectations assumption is that the agent knows the model, and fails to make absolutely correct forecasts only because of the inherent randomness in the economic environment.
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