Bayesian modeling of economies and data requirements

Macroeconomic Dynamics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 673-700

  Zellner, Arnold ^a,b   Chen, Bin ^a  

^a International Journal of Forecasting   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian modeling; Marshallian macroeconomic model; Sectoral disaggregation; Sectoral forecasting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035565804     PISSN: 13651005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s1365100501031029     Document Type: Article

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