Black market exchange rates and purchasing power parity in emerging economies

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 37-52

  Bahmani Oskooee, Mohsen ^a   Goswami, Gour G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b NORTH SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Asia; Black market exchange rate; Cointegration; Emerging economies; Parallel market exchange rate; Purchasing power parity

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844558818     PISSN: 1540496X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1540496x.2005.11052608     Document Type: Article

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