Does trade openness affect long run growth? Cointegration, causality and forecast error variance decomposition tests for Pakistan

Economic Modelling

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2325-2339

  Shahbaz, Muhammad ^a  

^a COMSATS Institute of Information Technology   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Causality; Cointegration; Growth; Pakistan; Trade

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865309798     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2012.07.015     Document Type: Article

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