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For the first three-quarters of the 20th century the main workhorse of applied econometrics was the basic regression.
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Granger, C.W.J. (2010). Spurious Regressions. In: Durlauf, S.N., Blume, L.E. (eds) Macroeconometrics and Time Series Analysis. The New Palgrave Economics Collection. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230280830_29
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