Health care expenditure and GDP: Are they broken stationary?

Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 839-854

  Carrion i Silvestre, Josep Lluís ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cross section dependence; Multiple structural breaks; Panel data stationarity test

Indexed keywords

HEALTH EXPENDITURE; OECD;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; EMPIRICISM; HEALTH CARE COST; INCOME; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STANDARDIZATION;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH EXPENDITURES;

EID: 23944441520     PISSN: 01676296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2005.01.001     Document Type: Article

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