Credit and business cycles in Greece: Is there any relationship?

Economic Modelling

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 23-29

  Karfakis, Costas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Business cycles; Granger causality test; Real credit; Real output; VAR analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874441943     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2013.01.036     Document Type: Article

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