Health-care expenditure, GDP and share of the elderly in Japan: a panel cointegration analysis

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 725-729

  Tamakoshi, Tomoko ^a   Hamori, Shigeyuki ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

fully modified OLS; GDP; health care expenditure; panel cointegration tests; share of the elderly

Indexed keywords

COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; ELDERLY POPULATION; EXPENDITURE; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HEALTH CARE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; PANEL DATA;

JAPAN;

EID: 84937253524     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2014.972540     Document Type: Article

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