Money growth and inflation in China: New evidence from a wavelet analysis

International Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 35, Issue , 2015, Pages 249-261

  Jiang, Chun ^a   Chang, Tsangyao ^b   Li, Xiao Lin ^c  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Frequency domain; Inflation; Money growth; Time domain; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908610092     PISSN: 10590560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iref.2014.10.005     Document Type: Article

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