A comparison of forecast performance between Federal Reserve staff forecasts, simple reduced-form models, and a DSGE model

Journal of Applied Econometrics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 720-754

  Edge, Rochelle M ^a   Kiley, Michael T ^a   Laforte, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

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EID: 77953506526     PISSN: 08837252     EISSN: 10991255     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jae.1175     Document Type: Article

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