Data Revisions are not Well-Behaved
- 1 January 2004
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
We document the empirical properties of revisions to major macroeconomic variables in the United States. Our findings suggest that they do not satisfy simple deKeywords
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