Causal relationship between construction investment policy and economic growth in Turkey

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 362-370

  Ozkan, Filiz ^a   Ozkan, Omer ^a   Gunduz, Murat ^b  

^a SAKARYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Construction sector; Economic growth; Engle Granger cointegration; Error correction; Granger causality

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; COINTEGRATION; CONSTRUCTION INVESTMENTS; CONSTRUCTION SECTORS; ECONOMIC CRISIS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ERROR CORRECTION MODELS; GRANGER CAUSALITY; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTS; GROWTH DATA;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; ECONOMICS; ERROR CORRECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

INVESTMENTS;

COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ERROR CORRECTION; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT; INDUSTRIAL POLICY;

TURKEY;

EID: 84855809471     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2011.04.007     Document Type: Article

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