Measuring the NAIRU with reduced uncertainty: A multiple-indicator common-cycle approach

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 805-811

  Basistha, Arabinda ^b   Startz, Richard ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 55549106132     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/rest.90.4.805     Document Type: Article

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