The Great Leap Forward, Economic Reforms, and the Unit Root Hypothesis: Testing for Breaking Trend Functions in China's GDP Data

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 814-827

  Li, Xiao Ming ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

China; GDP; output time series; trend stationarity; structural break; unit root testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013220243     PISSN: 01475967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcec.2000.1678     Document Type: Article

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