Real time representation of the UK output gap in the presence of model uncertainty

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 81-102

  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)

Author keywords

Model uncertainty; Output gap; Output trends; Probability forecasts; Real time data; Revisions

Indexed keywords

EID: 58949089531     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2008.11.005     Document Type: Article

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