Credit spreads as predictors of real-time economic activity: A bayesian model-averaging approach

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1501-1519

  Faust, Jon ^a   Gilchrist, Simon ^b   Wright, Jonathan H ^a   Zakrajšek, Egon ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84894473312     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00376     Document Type: Article

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