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* Michael M. Bechtel and Dirk Leuffen (2010):
* Forecasting in the Study of 
* European Union Politics: 
* A Note on How to Derive Out-of-sample Forecasts 
* in Political Time Series Analysis,
* forthcoming in: European Union Politics
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Place the dataset in your working directory and 
run 00.master.do to replicate the results presented 
in the research note.

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