A primer on real effective exchange rates: Determinants, overvaluation, trade flows and competitive devaluation

Open Economies Review

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 115-143

  Chinn, Menzie D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cointegration; Competitiveness; Overvaluation; Real effective exchange rate; Stationarity; Trade balance

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; EXCHANGE RATE; TRADE FLOW;

EID: 32044456016     PISSN: 09237992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11079-006-5215-0     Document Type: Article

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