The stylised facts of Australia's business cycle

Economic Modelling

Volumn 28, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 549-556

  Tawadros, George B ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Detrending methods; Hodrick Prescott filter; Real business cycles; Structural time series modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650241999     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2010.06.017     Document Type: Article

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