Forecasting Portuguese GDP with factor models: Pre- and post-crisis evidence

Economic Modelling

Volumn 44, Issue , 2015, Pages 266-272

  Dias, Francisco ^a   Pinheiro, Maximiano ^a   Rua, António ^a,b  

^a BANCO DE PORTUGAL   (Portugal)

^b NOVA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Crisis; Diffusion index; Factor models; Forecasting; Targeted diffusion index

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910618522     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2014.10.034     Document Type: Article

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