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Okun’s law revisited: a threshold in regression quantiles approach

Xiuhua WangCollege of Finance and Statistics, Hunan University, Changsha, China
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Ho-Chuan HuangDepartment of Banking and Finance, Tamkang University, New Taipei City, TaiwanCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1533-1541 | Published online: 13 Apr 2017

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