Stylized facts of business cycles in a transition economy in time and frequency

Economic Modelling

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2163-2173

  Caraiani, Petre ^a  

^a ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

Author keywords

Business cycles; Filters; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865059453     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2012.06.014     Document Type: Article

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