Forecasts for the seven major industrial countries, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, are published on a regular basis in the OECDs Economic Outlook. This paper analyses the accuracy of the OECD annual forecasts of output and price changes and of thecur
Assessing the Forecasting Performance of a Macroeconomic Model
✍ Scribed by Juhana Hukkinen; Matti Virén
- Book ID
- 114126509
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 401 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0161-8938
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