Real-time representations of the output gap

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 792-804

  Garratt, Anthony ^a   Lee, Kevin ^b   Mise, Emi ^b   Shields, Kalvinder ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 55549103355     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/rest.90.4.792     Document Type: Article

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