Dead man walking: An empirical reassessment of the deterrent effect of capital punishment using the bounds testing approach to cointegration

Applied Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 1975-1989

  Narayan, Paresh Kumar ^a   Smyth, Russell ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION;

EID: 33749012267     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840500427288     Document Type: Article

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