Forecasting demographic forecasts

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1128-1135

  Alho, Juha M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Conditional expectation; Forecast update; Population forecast; Rational expectations; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908212154     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2014.02.005     Document Type: Article

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