Target zone credibility and economic fundamentals

Economic Modelling

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 791-807

  Tronzano, Marco ^a   Psaradakis, Zacharias ^b   Sola, Martin ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD TORCUATO DI TELLA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Credibility; Regime switching model; Target zone; Transition probabilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038243015     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-9993(02)00009-3     Document Type: Article

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