Regional business cycle synchronization in Europe?

International Economics and Economic Policy

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 123-137

  Montoya, Lourdes Acedo ^a   de Haan, Jakob ^a,b,c  

^a College of Europe   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c CESIFO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business cycles; Regions; Synchronization of business cycles

Indexed keywords

EID: 48649109193     PISSN: 16124804     EISSN: 16124812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10368-008-0106-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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