The relationship between trade, FDI and economic growth in Tunisia: An application of the autoregressive distributed lag model

Economic Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 269-287

  Belloumi, Mounir ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUSSE   (Tunisia)

^b NAJRAN UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

ARDL cointegration; Economic growth; FDI; Trade; Tunisia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901501329     PISSN: 09393625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecosys.2013.09.002     Document Type: Article

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