Assessing the real-time informational content of macroeconomic data releases for now-/forecasting GDP: Evidence for Switzerland

Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik

Volumn 232, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 429-444

  Siliverstovs, Boriss ^a   Kholodilin, Konstantin A ^b  

^a KOF SWISS ECONOMIC INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

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EID: 84864537359     PISSN: 00214027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2012-0404     Document Type: Article

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