Business cycle correlation of the new meber states with eurozone - The case of Romania

Romanian Journal of Economic Forecasting

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 16-31

  Dumitru, Ionuţ ^a   Dumitru, Ionela ^b  

^a Bucharest Academy   (Romania)

^b BUCHAREST UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMIC STUDIES   (Romania)

Author keywords

Business cycle synchronization; Convergence; Euro adoption; OCA; Output gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951492482     PISSN: 15826163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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