Does the Euro follow the German Mark? Evidence from the monetary model of the exchange rate

European Economic Review

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1279-1295

  Nautz, Dieter ^a   Offermanns, Christian J ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Euro Dollar exchange rate; Forecast evaluation; Monetary model of the exchange rate; Synthetic Euro data

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; EXCHANGE RATE; FORECASTING METHOD;

EID: 33744910337     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2005.03.003     Document Type: Article

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