The net barter terms of trade: A smooth
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Anna Persson; Timo TerΓ€svirta
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract This paper analyses the net barter terms of trade measured by the primary commodity price index relative to the indexes of unit values of export of manufactures from industrial countries. The starting point is that the series is stationary but possibly nonβlinear. Statistical tests indi