Disagreement among forecasters in G7 countries

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1081-1096

  Dovern, Jonas ^a   Fritsche, Ulrich ^b   Slacalek, Jiri ^c  

^a Kiel Economics Research and Forecasting   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

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EID: 84861701165     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00207     Document Type: Article

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