Consumer sentiment and consumer spending: Decomposing the Granger causal relationship in the time domain

Applied Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-11

  Gelper, Sarah ^a   Lemmens, Aurélie ^a,b   Croux, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 33845539887     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840500427791     Document Type: Article

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