Predictive financial models of the euro area: A new evaluation test

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 695-705

  Panopoulou, Ekaterini ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Financial variables; Forecasting accuracy; Output growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 36348936646     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2007.04.001     Document Type: Article

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