Black market exchange rate and the productivity bias hypothesis

Economics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 243-249

  Bahmani Oskooee, Mohsen ^a   Gelan, Abera ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Black market rate; PPP; Productivity bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646375422     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2005.09.016     Document Type: Article

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