The Sources of Macroeconomic Fluctuations in Developing Countries : Brazil and Korea /

This paper studies the sources of macroeconomic fluctuations in developing countries using a structural VAR approach. Identification of the sources is achieved using long-run restrictions derived from a theoretical model of a small open economy encompassing a large number of macroeconomic paradigms;...

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Glavni avtor: Roldos, Jorge
Drugi avtorji: Hoffmaister, Willy
Format: Revija
Jezik:English
Izdano: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1996.
Serija:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1996/020
Online dostop:Full text available on IMF
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