China's equilibrium real exchange rate: A counterfactual analysis

Pacific Economic Review

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-39

  Tyers, Rod ^a,c   Bu, Yongxiang ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Bank Of China   (China)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALANCE OF TRADE; EXPORT; FINANCIAL CRISIS; GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; IMPORT; REAL EXCHANGE RATE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 38049172659     PISSN: 1361374X     EISSN: 14680106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0106.2007.00387.x     Document Type: Article

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