Does consumer debt cause economic recession? Evidence using directed acyclic graphs

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 401-407

  Zhang, Jin ^a   Bessler, David A ^a   Leatham, David J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBT; ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745074680     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850500398658     Document Type: Article

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