A real-time data set for macroeconomists: Does the data vintage matter?

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 605-617

  Croushore, Dean ^a   Stark, Tom ^a  

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EID: 0242474618     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/003465303322369759     Document Type: Article

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