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An appropriate test of the Kuznets hypothesis

Ho-Chuan (River) Huang Department of Banking and Finance, Tamkang University, No. 151, Yingzhuan Road, Danshui District, New Taipei City, 25137, Taiwan
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Yi-Chen Lin Department of Economics, Tamkang University, No. 151, Yingzhuan Road, Danshui District, New Taipei City, 25137, Taiwan
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Chih-Chuan Yeh Department of Finance, Overseas Chinese University, No. 100, Chiao Kwang Road, Taichung, 407, TaiwanCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 47-51 | Published online: 13 May 2011

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