Could The Start Of The German Recession 2008-2009 Have Been Foreseen? Evidence From Real-Time Data
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Forecast accuracy; Great Recession; real-time analysis; data processing;All these keywords.
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- C53 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Forecasting and Prediction Models; Simulation Methods
- E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
- E37 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
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- NEP-FOR-2016-05-14 (Forecasting)
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