Forecasting inflation: An art as well as a science!

Economist

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-40

  Den Reijer, Ard ^a   Vlaar, Peter ^a  

^a DE NEDERLANDSCHE BANK   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Model selection time series models

Indexed keywords

INFLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33646035163     PISSN: 0013063X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10645-006-0002-2     Document Type: Article

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