Predicting emerging market currency crashes

Journal of Empirical Finance

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 427-454

  Kumar, Mohan ^a   Moorthy, Uma ^b   Perraudin, William ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Currency crisis; Exchange rates; Forecasting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038182639     PISSN: 09275398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5398(02)00068-3     Document Type: Article

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