Household heterogeneity and real exchange rates

Economic Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 519, 2007, Pages

  Kocherlakota, Narayana R ^a,b   Pistaferri, Luigi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REAL EXCHANGE RATE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34250327211     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02032.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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