Comparing price levels across countries using minimum-spanning trees

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 135-142

  Hill, Robert J ^a  

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EID: 0033448369     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/003465399767923881     Document Type: Article

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