The unit root hypothesis for aggregate output may not hold after all: New evidence from a panel stationarity test with multiple breaks

Southern Economic Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 642-658

  Romero Ávila, Diego ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

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