This metadata relates to an electronic version of an article published in Applied economics letters, 2009, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 267-271. Applied economics letters is available online at informaworldTM at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1080/13504850601018387

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