Germany before and after unification: A structural VAR analysis

Economic Modelling

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 575-601

  Weber, Axel A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business cycles; Growth; Propagation; Shocks; Structural vector autoregression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030268472     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0264-9993(96)01025-5     Document Type: Article

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