Forecasting the US unemployment rate

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 451-476

  Proietti, Tommaso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Forecasting performance; Generalised impulse response function; Leave k out diagnostics; Nonlinearity; Persistence; Structural time series models

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

UNEMPLOYMENT RATES;

EMPLOYMENT;

FORECASTING METHOD;

EID: 0037471404     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(02)00230-X     Document Type: Article

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