Forecasting the New York State economy: The coincident and leading indicators approach

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 701-713

  Megna, Robert ^a   Xu, Qiang ^a  

^a New York State Division of the Budget   (United States)

Author keywords

Indicators; Kalman filter; State space model; Time series; VAR models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142087033     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2070(03)00002-5     Document Type: Article

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