Forecasting euro area variables with german pre-EMU data

Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 465-481

  Brüggemann, Ralf ^a   Lütkepohl, Helmut ^b   Marcellino, Massimiliano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Constructing EMU data; European monetary union; Forecasting

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTING EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION DATA; EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION; FORECAST COMPARISONS; FORECASTING METHODS; MACROECONOMIC VARIABLES; MONETARY UNION; SYNTHETIC-TIME; TIMES SERIES; UNIVARIATE;

FORECASTING;

EID: 52649133430     PISSN: 02776693     EISSN: 1099131X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/for.1064     Document Type: Article

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