The impact of measurement error in the U.S. National Income and Product Accounts on forecasts of GNP and its components

Journal of Economic and Social Measurement

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 89-102

  Fleming, Martin ^a   Jordan, John S ^b   Lang, Kathleen M ^b  

^a ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Business cycles; Consensus forecasts; Prediction error

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142511159     PISSN: 07479662     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/jem-1996-22201     Document Type: Article

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