Budgetary Forecasting in India: Partitioning Errors and Testing for Rational Expectations

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Budgetary Forecasting in India:

Partitioning Errors and Testing for

Rational Expectations

Chakraborty, Lekha S and Sinha, Darshy

National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, India,

Centre for Development Studies (JNU), Kerala, India

January 2008

Online at

https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7538/

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