Twenty-five years of progress, problems, and conflicting evidence in econometric forecasting. What about the next 25 years?

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 475-492

  Allen, P Geoffrey ^a   Morzuch, Bernard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

ARCH; Automatic model selection; Cointegration; Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium; Error correction; GARCH; Leading indicators; VAR

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746059385     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2006.03.003     Document Type: Article

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