Forecasting professional forecasters

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 504-516

  Ghysels, Eric ^a   Wright, Jonathan H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecast evaluation; Kalman filter; Mixed frequency data sampling; News announcements; Survey forecasts

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349918181     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jbes.2009.06044     Document Type: Article

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