Nowcasting

The Oxford Handbook of Economic Forecasting

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  BańBura, Marta ^a   Giannone, Domenico ^b   Reichlin, Lucrezia ^c  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Current economic state; Economic forecasting; Euro area; GDP; Inflation; Macroeconomic data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923408414     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195398649.013.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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