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Research Article

Forecasts of US housing starts: assessing the usefulness of nowcast data

Hamid BaghestaniDepartment of Economics, School of Business Administration, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab EmiratesCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 955-959 | Published online: 08 Feb 2022

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