Explaining the duration of exchange-rate pegs

Journal of Development Economics

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 387-404

  Klein, Michael W ^a   Marion, Nancy P ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Devaluation; Exchange rate regime; Latin America

Indexed keywords

EXCHANGE RATE; FISCAL POLICY; INTERNATIONAL RATE; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

JAMAICA; LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 0031391343     PISSN: 03043878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3878(97)00048-5     Document Type: Article

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