Macroeconomic activity dynamics and Granger causality: New evidence from a small developing economy based on a vector error-correction modelling analysis

Economic Modelling

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 407-426

  Masih, Rumi ^a   Masih, Abul M M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Causality; Cointegration; Macroeconomic

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030191393     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0264-9993(96)01013-9     Document Type: Article

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