Insurance and real output: The key role of banking activities

Macroeconomic Dynamics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 235-260

  Lee, Chien Chiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Banking; Cross Sectional Dependence; Insurance Premiums; Panel Causality; Panel Cointegration; Real Output; Structural Breaks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874729638     PISSN: 13651005     EISSN: 14698056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1365100511000101     Document Type: Article

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