Comparing greenbook and reduced form forecasts using a large realtime dataset

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 468-479

  Faust, Jon ^a   Wright, Jonathan H ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Greenbook; Large datasets; Realtime data

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349906781     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jbes.2009.07214     Document Type: Article

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