Export promotion through exchange rate changes: Exchange rate depreciation or stabilization?

Southern Economic Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 611-626

  Fang, Wenshwo ^a,b   Lai, Yihao ^a   Miller, Stephen M ^c  

^a FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b OVERSEAS CHINESE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

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EID: 33644542459     PISSN: 00384038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/20111836     Document Type: Article

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