Are current account deficits sustainable?: Evidence from panel cointegration

Economics Letters

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 219-224

  Wu, Jyh Lin ^a   Chen, Show Lin ^b   Lee, Hsiu Yun ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Current accounts; F32; Panel cointegration

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347119177     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(01)00420-7     Document Type: Article

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