The behaviour of the real exchange rate: Evidence from regression quantiles

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 664-679

  Nikolaou, Kleopatra ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Purchasing power parity; Quantile regression; Real exchange rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 41849084852     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2007.05.002     Document Type: Article

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