The diversity of forecasts from macroeconomic models of the US economy

Economic Theory

Volumn 47, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 247-292

  Wieland, Volker ^a   Wolters, Maik H ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation; Business cycles; Forecast distribution; Forecasting; Heterogenous beliefs; Model uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955899904     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-010-0549-7     Document Type: Article

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