Forecast combination and the Bank of England's suite of statistical forecasting models

Economic Modelling

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 772-792

  Kapetanios, George ^a   Labhard, Vincent ^b   Price, Simon ^c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

^c BANK OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Forecast combining; Forecasting

Indexed keywords

EID: 44149099106     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2007.11.004     Document Type: Article

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