Financial variables and euro area growth: A non-parametric causality analysis

Economic Modelling

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1414-1419

  Panopoulou, Ekaterini ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cross correlations; Granger causality; Money supply; Output growth; Stock returns; Term spread

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849112923     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2009.07.013     Document Type: Article

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