Testing the efficiency and rationality of City forecasts

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 57-66

  Egginton, Don M ^a,b  

^a Daiwa Institute of Research Europe   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Macroeconomic forecasting; Rationality; Surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007028305     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2070(98)00068-5     Document Type: Article

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