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Nowcasting emerging market’s GDP: the importance of dimension reduction techniques

Oguzhan CepniStrategy and Corporate Governance Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Altindag, Ankara, Turkey
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I. Ethem GuneyStrategy and Corporate Governance Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Altindag, Ankara, TurkeyCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1670-1674 | Published online: 27 Mar 2019

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