Integration and causality in international freight markets: Modeling with error correction and directed acyclic graphs

Southern Economic Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 145-162

  Haigh, Michael S ^a,b   Nomikos, Nikos K ^c   Bessler, David A ^d  

^a Office of the Chief Economist   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 4043097727     PISSN: 00384038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4135317     Document Type: Review

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