Detrending and the distributional properties of U.S. output time series

Economics Bulletin

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 3155-3161

  Fagiolo, Giorgio ^a   Piazza, Marco ^a   Napoletano, Mauro ^a,b   Roventini, Andrea ^a,c  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b OFCE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

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