Forecasting the exchange rate PPP versus a random walk

Economics Letters

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 69-74

  Pereira Fritsche, Charmaine ^a   Wallace, Myles ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Purchasing power parity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030636540     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(96)00946-9     Document Type: Article

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