Evidence of Wagner's law from Indian states

Economic Modelling

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1548-1557

  Narayan, Seema ^a   Rath, Badri Narayan ^b   Narayan, Paresh Kumar ^c  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HYDERABAD   (India)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cointegration; Heterogeneous; Indian states; Panel data; Unit root; Wagner's Law

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861809833     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2012.05.004     Document Type: Article

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