Combining disaggregate forecasts or combining disaggregate information to forecast an aggregate

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 216-227

  Hendry, David F ^a   Hubrich, Kirstin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggregate forecasts; Disaggregate information; Forecast combination; Inflation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956205530     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: 15372707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jbes.2009.07112     Document Type: Article

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