The purchasing power parity puzzle is worse than you think

Empirical Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 783-790

  Murray, Christian J ^a   Papell, David H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Half lives; Median unbiased estimation; Purchasing power parity

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXCHANGE RATE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PURCHASING POWER PARITY;

EID: 25844436889     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-005-0261-9     Document Type: Article

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