Modelling and forecasting fiscal variables for the Euro area

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 67, Issue SUPPL., 2005, Pages 755-783

  Favero, Carlo A ^a   Marcellino, Massimiliano ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

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EID: 29144497969     PISSN: 03059049     EISSN: 14680084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0084.2005.00140.x     Document Type: Review

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