G-7 inflation forecasts: Random walk, phillips curve or what else?

Macroeconomic Dynamics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-30

  Canova, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

G 7 countries; Inflation; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Panel VAR models

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947668900     PISSN: 13651005     EISSN: 14698056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S136510050705033X     Document Type: Article

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