A note on variable addition tests for linear and log-linear models

Economics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 422-427

  Godfrey, L G ^a   Santos Silva, J M C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c CEMAPRE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Box Cox transformation; Instrumental variables; Internal instruments

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248566819     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2006.11.018     Document Type: Article

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