Forecasting euro area inflation: Does aggregating forecasts by HICP component improve forecast accuracy?

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 119-136

  Hubrich, Kristin ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Euro area inflation; HICP subindex forecast aggregation; Linear time series models

Indexed keywords

EID: 11944263239     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2004.04.005     Document Type: Article

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