Meta-analysis of the business cycle correlation between the euro area and the CEECs

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 518-537

  Fidrmuc, Jarko ^a,b   Korhonen, Iikka ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^c Bank of Finland   (Finland)

Author keywords

Business cycles; Meta analysis; Monetary union; Optimum currency area

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750629093     PISSN: 01475967     EISSN: 10957227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2006.06.007     Document Type: Article

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