Is there a stochastic convergence process in the West African economic and monetary union in presence of multiple structural breaks from 1960 to 2010?
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Panel stationarity test; Structural breaks; Bootstrap; Monte Carlo; Stochastic convergence; Franc Zone; WAEMU;All these keywords.
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- C1 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General
- O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
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