Unit root tests, persistence, and the unemployment rate of the U.S. States

Southern Economic Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 698-716

  Romero Ávila, Diego ^a   Usabiaga, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

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