Chapter 17 Forecasting with Real-Time Macroeconomic Data

Handbook of Economic Forecasting

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 961-982

  Croushore, Dean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

data revisions; forecast evaluation; forecasting; real time data

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649372847     PISSN: 15740706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0706(05)01017-7     Document Type: Review

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