Foreign exchange market volatility in EU accession countries in the run-up to Euro adoption: Weathering uncharted waters

Economic Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 337-352

  Kóbor, Ádám ^a   Székely, István P ^b  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

EU accession countries; Foreign exchange market volatility; Markov regime switching model

Indexed keywords

EID: 17144415956     PISSN: 09393625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecosys.2004.02.001     Document Type: Article

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