Forecasting european union politics: Real-time forecasts in political time series analysis

European Union Politics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 309-327

  Bechtel, Michael M ^a   Leuffen, Dirk ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

European Union; Forecasting; Imputation; Legislative output; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953372768     PISSN: 14651165     EISSN: 17412757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1465116509360846     Document Type: Article

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