A bayesian vector autoregressive model with informative steady-state priors for the Australian economy

Economic Record

Volumn 84, Issue 267, 2008, Pages 449-465

  Beechey, Meredith ^a   Österholm, Pär ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; MODELING; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 57649114121     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: 14754932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2008.00510.x     Document Type: Article

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