Short-term forecasting of Czech quarterly GDP using monthly indicators

Finance a Uver - Czech Journal of Economics and Finance

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 566-583

  Arnoštová, Katefina ^a   Havrlant, David ^a   Ružička, Luboš ^a   Tóth, Peter ^b  

^a CZECH NATIONAL BANK   (Czech Republic)

^b Anglo American College   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Bridge models; Dynamic factor models; GDP forecasting; Principal components; Real time evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855809903     PISSN: 00151920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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