Panel data, cointegration, causality and Wagner's law: Empirical evidence from Chinese provinces

China Economic Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 297-307

  NARAYAN, Paresh Kumar ^a   NIELSEN, Ingrid ^b   SMYTH, Russell ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cointegration; Granger causality; Wagner's law

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649114450     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2006.11.004     Document Type: Article

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