Freedom of choice in macroeconomic forecasting

CESifo Economic Studies

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 192-220

  Robinzonov, Nikolay ^a   Wohlrabe, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b IFO INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Forecasting competition; Leading indicators; Model selection

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; ECONOMETRICS; FORECASTING METHOD; LINEARITY; MACROECONOMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

GERMANY;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 77953987712     PISSN: 1610241X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cesifo/ifp019     Document Type: Article

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