Munich Personal RePEc Archive
Business cycles and the behavior of energy prices
Serletis, Apostolos and Hulleman, Vaughn
1994
Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1745/
MPRA Paper No. 1745, posted 11 Feb 2007 UTC
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