Tweeting Inflation: Real-Time Measures of Inflation Perception in Colombia

LATIN AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
Publicado: 
Authors:
Jonathan Muñoz Martíneza,
David Orozcoe,
Clasificación JEL: 
E31, E37, E52

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