The duration of economic expansions and recessions: More than duration dependence

Journal of Macroeconomics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 347-365

  Castro, Vítor ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Business cycles; Contractions; Duration dependence; Duration models; Expansions

Indexed keywords

EID: 76349103965     PISSN: 01640704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2009.06.006     Document Type: Article

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