Forecast combination and encompassing

Palgrave Handbook of Econometrics: Volume 2: Applied Econometrics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 169-198

  Clements, Michael P ^a   Harvey, David I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230244405_4     Document Type: Chapter

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