A note on modelling core inflation for the UK using a new dynamic factor estimation method and a large disaggregated price index dataset

Economics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-69

  Kapetanios, George ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Core inflation; Factor models

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344632520     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2003.07.018     Document Type: Article

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