Forecasting industrial production in the Euro area

Empirical Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 541-561

  Bodo, Giorgio ^a   Golinelli, Roberto ^b   Parigi, Giuseppe ^c  

^a CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c BANK OF ITALY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alternative models; Conditional ECM; Forecasts comparison

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009069088     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001810000032     Document Type: Article

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