Cointegration and Wagner's hypothesis: Time series evidence for Canada

Applied Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1055-1058

  Ahsan, Syed M ^a   Kwan, Andy C C ^b   Sahni, Balbir S ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAGNER'S HYPOTHESIS;

CANADA;

EID: 0030432506     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000368496328182     Document Type: Article

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