Business cycle measurement in the presence of structural change: International evidence

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 349-368

  Krolzig, Hans Martin ^a  

^a NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business cycles; Cointegration; Employment; European Union; Impulse response analysis; Regime shifts, Markov switching; Structural change; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012784870     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2070(01)00099-1     Document Type: Article

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