The term spread as a monthly cyclical indicator: An evaluation

Economics Letters

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 79-83

  Boulier, Bryan L ^a   Stekler, H O ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business cycle; E47; Forecasting; Term structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034405538     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(99)00184-6     Document Type: Article

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