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References
All citations in the
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Examples: "as demonstrated in (Allan, 1996a, 1996b, 1999; Allan and Jones, 1995). Lee et al. (2000)
have recently shown"
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if necessary. More than one reference from the same Author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters "a", "b", "c", etc.,
placed after the year of publication.
Examples:
Reference to a journal publication:
-Griffiths, W., Judge, G., 1992.
Testing and estimating location vectors when the error covariance matrix is unknown. Journal of Econometrics 54, 121-138 (note that journal
names are not to be abbreviated)
Reference to a book:
-Maddala, G.S., 1983. Limited Dependent and Qualitative Variables
in Econometrics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
-Reinganum, J., 1989.
The timing of innovation: research development and diffusion. In: Schmalansee, R., Willig, R. (Eds.). Handbook of Industrial Organization,
Vol. I. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 849-908.
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