News and noise in G-7 GDP announcements

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 403-419

  Faust, Jon ^a   Rogers, John H ^a   Wright, Jonathan H ^a  

^a Federal Reserve Board Division of International Finance   (United States)

Author keywords

Final data; GDP; Preliminary data; Revision; Vintage data

Indexed keywords

EID: 22544453594     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mcb.2005.0029     Document Type: Review

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