Data revisions are not well behaved

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 40, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 319-340

  Aruoba, S Borag̀an ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecasting; News and noise; NIPA variables; Real time data

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549149623     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2008.00115.x     Document Type: Article

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