A prism into the PPP puzzles: The micro-foundations of big mac real exchange rates

Economic Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 523, 2007, Pages 1336-1356

  Parsley, David C ^a   Wei, Shang Jin ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRICE DETERMINATION; PURCHASING POWER PARITY; REAL EXCHANGE RATE;

EID: 34848866264     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02085.x     Document Type: Article

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