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Almon Lag

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The Almon distributed lag, due to Shirley Almon (1965), is a technique for estimating the weights of a distributed lag by means of a polynomial specification.

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  • Almon, S. 1965. The distributed lag between capital appropriations and expenditures. Econometrica 33(1): 178–196.

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Waud, R.N. (2018). Almon Lag. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_385

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