Forecasting with small macroeconomic VARs in the presence of instabilities

Frontiers of Economics and Globalization

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 93-147

  Clark, Todd E ^a   McCracken, Michael W ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Prediction; Real time data; Structural change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866715239     PISSN: 15748715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-8715(07)00203-5     Document Type: Review

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