Testing symmetry and proportionality in PPP: A panel-data approach

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 409-418

  Li, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autocorrelated errors; Cross section; Hierarchical priors; System of equations models; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033407245     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: 15372707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07350015.1999.10524829     Document Type: Article

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