What can survey forecasts tell us about information rigidities?

Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 116-159

  Coibion, Olivier ^a   Gorodnichenko, Yuriy ^a  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CENTRAL BANK; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; PREDICTION;

EID: 84859767408     PISSN: 00223808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/665662     Document Type: Article

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