The Use and Abuse of 'Real-Time' Data in Economic Forecasting
Preprint
- 1 January 2000
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
We distinguish between three different ways of using real-time data to estimate forecasting equations and argue that the most frequently used approach should geKeywords
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