Forecasting global recessions in a GVAR model of actual and expected output

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 374-390

  Garratt, Anthony ^a   Lee, Kevin ^b   Shields, Kalvinder ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cross country interactions; Forecast evaluation; Global and national recession; Probability forecasts; Survey expectations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955273681     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2015.08.004     Document Type: Article

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