The dynamics of market structure and firm-level adjustment to India's pro-market economic liberalizing reforms, 1988-2006: A Time Varying Panel Smooth Transition Regression (TV-PSTR) approach

International Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 506-519

  Geng, Nan ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Liberalizing reforms; Market efficiency; Panel Smooth Transition Regression model; Total factor productivity (TFP) growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957549816     PISSN: 10590560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iref.2010.09.007     Document Type: Article

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