Combining forecasts - forty years later

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-41

  Wallis, Kenneth F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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BIOGRAPHY; FORECASTING METHOD;

EID: 78649901626     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603107.2011.523179     Document Type: Article

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