Subjective probability forecasts for recessions

Business Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 26-37

  Lahiri, Kajal ^a   Wang, J Geogre ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Cycles; Forecasting; GDP; Probability; Recessiong

Indexed keywords

EID: 37849188433     PISSN: 0007666X     EISSN: 0007666X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2145/20060204     Document Type: Article

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