Multivariate business cycle synchronization in small samples

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 715-737

  Candelon, Bertrand ^a   Piplack, Jan ^b   Straetmans, Stefan ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 68949105561     PISSN: 03059049     EISSN: 14680084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0084.2009.00556.x     Document Type: Article

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