UK real-time macro data characteristics

Economic Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 509, 2006, Pages

  Garratt, Anthony ^a,b   Vahey, Shaun P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b RESERVE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; MACROECONOMICS;

EID: 33645977799     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2006.01067.x     Document Type: Article

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