Nowcasting US GDP: The role of ISM business surveys

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 644-658

  Lahiri, Kajal ^a   Monokroussos, George ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Factor models; Forecasting; ISM; Kalman filter; NMI; PMI; Real time data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885171643     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2012.02.010     Document Type: Article

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