Learning to forecast and cyclical behavior of output and inflation

Macroeconomic Dynamics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-27

  Adam, Klaus ^a,b,c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Center for Financial Studies   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business Cycles; Constrained Rational Expectations; Inefficient Forecasts; Inflation Persistence; Learning; Output,

Indexed keywords

EID: 12944327754     PISSN: 13651005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s1365100505040101     Document Type: Article

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