Elections and exchange rate policy cycles

Economics and Politics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 151-176

  Bonomo, Marco ^a   Terra, Cristina ^a  

^a FUNDAÇÃO GETÚLIO VARGAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC POLICY; ELECTORAL SYSTEM; POLITICAL ECONOMY; REAL EXCHANGE RATE; TRADE; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

LATIN AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 22444438626     PISSN: 09541985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0343.2005.00150.x     Document Type: Article

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