The Use and Abuse of Real-Time Data in Economic Forecasting

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• Publication year

  2000

• Venue

  Review of Economics and Statistics

• Publication date

  2000-11-01

• Fields of study

  Economics

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  DOI 10.1162/003465303322369768
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