Causality between financial development and economic growth: An application of vector error correction and variance decomposition methods to Saudi Arabia

Applied Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1691-1699

  Masih, Mansur ^a   Al Elg, Ali ^a   Madani, Haider ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; DEMAND ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ERROR CORRECTION; FINANCIAL MARKET; FINANCIAL POLICY; MODELING; POLICY REFORM;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 67650766710     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840701320233     Document Type: Article

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