Do consumer-confidence indexes help forecast consumer spending in real time?

North American Journal of Economics and Finance

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 435-450

  Croushore, Dean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer confidence; Forecasting; Real time

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645070799     PISSN: 10629408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.najef.2005.05.002     Document Type: Article

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