Mean reversion of the current account: Evidence from the panel data unit-root test

Economics Letters

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 215-222

  Wu, Jyh Lin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Current account; F32; Mean reverting; Panel data unit root tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034380708     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(99)00198-6     Document Type: Article

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