A test of purchasing power parity based on the largest principal component of real exchange rates of the main OECD economies

Economics Letters

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 225-231

  Snell, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exchange rates; Principal components; Purchasing power parity; Unity root tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030140988     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-1765(95)00802-0     Document Type: Article

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