Does information help recovering structural shocks from past observations?

Journal of the European Economic Association

Volumn 4, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 455-465

  Giannone, Domenico ^a,b   Reichlin, Lucrezia ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b Brussels and CORE   (Belgium)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

^d CEPR ^*

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EID: 34250741770     PISSN: 15424766     EISSN: 15424774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jeea.2006.4.2-3.455     Document Type: Conference Paper

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