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The accuracy of alternative GDP growth forecasts: Do they represent a credible alternative to the official ones? Cover

The accuracy of alternative GDP growth forecasts: Do they represent a credible alternative to the official ones?

Review of Economic Perspectives
Volume 15 (2015): Issue 3 (September 2015)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/revecp-2015-0021 | Journal eISSN: 1804-1663 | Journal ISSN: 1213-2446
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Language: English
Page range: 291 - 304
Submitted on: May 26, 2015
Accepted on: Sep 1, 2015
Published on: Oct 20, 2015
Published by: Mendel University in Brno
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
GDP forecast,
Scale-dependent error measures,
Relative error measures,
Alternative macroeconomic forecasts,
Czech-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions,
Czech Banking Association
JEL:
E37,
E66,
H68,
O47
Related subjects:
Business and economics,
Political economics,
Economic theory, systems and structures

© 2015 Jiří Šindelář, published by Mendel University in Brno
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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