Exchange rate uncertainty, sociopolitical instability and private investment: Empirical evidence from Latin America

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 372-385

  Escaleras, Monica ^a   Thomakos, Dimitrios D ^b  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXCHANGE RATE; INSTITUTIONAL REFORM; INVESTMENT; MACROECONOMICS; POLICY MAKING; POLITICAL INSTABILITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 41549105388     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: 14679361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2007.00378.x     Document Type: Article

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