On the forecasting performance of a small-scale DSGE model

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 498-512

  Rubaszek, Michał ^a,b   Skrzypczyński, Paweł ^a  

^a NATIONAL BANK OF POLAND   (Poland)

^b WARSAW SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; DSGE model, Survey of Professional Forecasters; Real time data; Vector autoregression models

Indexed keywords

EID: 49349117684     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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