An empirical analysis of China's aggregate import demand function

China Economic Review

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 142-163

  Tang, Tuck Cheong ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Aggregate import demand; China; Cointegration; Unrestricted error correction model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041883618     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1043-951X(03)00021-X     Document Type: Article

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