Smooth and timely business cycle indicators for noisy Swedish data

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 389-402

  Öller, Lars Erik ^a,b   Tallbom, Christer ^a  

^a Natl Institute of Economic Research   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Business cycle indicators; Business tendency surveys; Exponential smoothing; Kalman filter; Noisy data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030239701     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-2070(95)00614-1     Document Type: Article

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