Do core inflation measures help forecast inflation?: Out-of-sample evidence from French data

Economics Letters

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 261-266

  Le Bihan, Hervé ^a   Sédillot, Franck ^a  

^a BANQUE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

C4; Core inflation; E5; Forecasting inflation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038572622     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(00)00307-4     Document Type: Article

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