Aggregate exports response to trade openness: Bounds testing approach for Pakistan

World Applied Sciences Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 91-100

  Atif, Rao Muhammad ^a   Shah, Iqtidar Ali ^a   Zaman, Khalid ^a  

^a COMSATS Institute of Information Technology ^*  (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Cointegration; Exports; Pakistan; Relative prices; Trade openness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859542842     PISSN: 18184952     EISSN: 19916426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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