Health care expenditure and economic growth: Quantile panel-type analysis

Economic Modelling

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1536-1549

  Wang, Kuan Min ^a  

^a OVERSEAS CHINESE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Health care expenditure; Panel type VECM model; Quantile regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956202687     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2011.02.008     Document Type: Article

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