10 Interest rate spreads as predictors of business cycles

Handbook of Statistics

Volumn 14, Issue , 1996, Pages 297-315

  Lahiri, Kajal ^a   Wang, Jiazhuo G ^a  

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EID: 70350339772     PISSN: 01697161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-7161(96)14012-8     Document Type: Review

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