Decision-making in hard times: What is a recession, why do we care and how do we know when we are in one?

North American Journal of Economics and Finance

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 43-60

  Lee, Kevin ^a   Shields, Kalvinder K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Probability forecasts; Real time; Recession

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952677642     PISSN: 10629408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.najef.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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