Revisiting business cycles in the Eurozone: A fuzzy clustering and discriminant approach

Acta Oeconomica

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 161-180

  Quah, Chee Heong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

business cycle; debt crisis; EMU; Euro; integration; monetary union

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS CYCLE; CAPITAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEBT CRISIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION; EUROPEAN UNION; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; INVESTMENT;

EUROPE;

EID: 84904118957     PISSN: 00016373     EISSN: 15882659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/AOecon.64.2014.2.2     Document Type: Article

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