New directions in business cycle research and financial analysis

Empirical Economics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 149-162

  Hamilton, James D ^a   Raj, Baldev ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Business cycles; Markov switching; Regime switching

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BUSINESS CYCLE; FINANCIAL MARKET;

EID: 0036524607     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001810100115     Document Type: Article

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