Forecasting inflation through a bottom-up approach: How bottom is bottom?

Economic Modelling

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 941-953

  Duarte, Cláudia ^a   Rua, António ^a  

^a Banco de Portugal ^*

Author keywords

Bottom up; Dynamic common factors; Factor Augmented SARIMA; Inflation forecasting

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548540814     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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