The contribution of domestic, regional and international factors to Latin America's business cycle

Economic Modelling

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1235-1246

  Boschi, Melisso ^a   Girardi, Alessandro ^a,b  

^a Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance   (Italy)

^b ISTAT   (Italy)

Author keywords

C32; E32; Exchange rate regimes; F31; F41; Global VAR methodology; International business cycle; Latin America; VECM

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953040900     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2011.01.002     Document Type: Article

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