Gold and commodity prices as leading indicators of inflation: Tests of long-run relationship and predictive performance

Journal of Economics and Business

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 475-489

  Mahdavi, Saeid ^a   Zhou, Su ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Inflation; Leading indicators

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242586591     PISSN: 00129933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0148-6195(97)00034-9     Document Type: Article

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