A re-examination of Wagner's law for ten countries based on cointegration and error-correction modelling techniques

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 577-589

  Chang, Tsangyao ^a   Liu, Wenrong ^a   Caudill, Steven B ^b  

^a FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; INCOME; PUBLIC SPENDING;

EID: 2542421176     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0960310042000233872     Document Type: Article

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