Granger causality between total expenditure on health and GDP in OECD: Evidence from the Toda-Yamamoto approach

Economics Letters

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 541-544

  Amiri, Arshia ^a   Ventelou, Bruno ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

GDP; Healthcare expenditure; OECD; Toda Yamamoto causality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864768440     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.04.040     Document Type: Article

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