Forecasting with Monetary Aggregates: Recent Evidence for the United States

Journal of Economics and Business

Volumn 58, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 428-446

  Elger, Thomas ^a   Jones, Barry E ^b   Nilsson, Birger ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Divisia monetary aggregates; Forecasting; Regime switching; Sweep programs

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748046469     PISSN: 01486195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconbus.2006.06.004     Document Type: Article

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