Forecasting the US real house price index: Structural and non-structural models with and without fundamentals

Economic Modelling

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2013-2021

  Gupta, Rangan ^a   Kabundi, Alain ^b   Miller, Stephen M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

DSGE models; Factor augmented models; Forecasting; Large scale BVAR models; US House prices

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956206645     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2011.04.005     Document Type: Article

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