External and budget deficits in some developing countries

Journal of International Money and Finance

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 77-98

  Chihi, Foued ^a   Normandin, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

^b HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Covariance decomposition; Heterogeneous goods; Overlapping generations; Small open economy; Vector autoregression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874979368     PISSN: 02615606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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