Moving Endpoints and the Internal Consistency of Agents' Ex Ante Forecasts

Computational Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 21-40

  Kozicki, Sharon ^a   Tinsley, P A ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary values; Expected inflation; Term structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039924318     PISSN: 09277099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008618512649     Document Type: Article

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