Is the markup a useful real-time predictor of inflation?

Economics Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 261-267

  Koenig, Evan F ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecasts; Inflation; Markup; Real time

Indexed keywords

EID: 30244451200     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(03)00099-5     Document Type: Article

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