Exploring different views of exchange rate regime choice

Journal of International Money and Finance

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1177-1197

  Carmignani, Fabrizio ^a   Colombo, Emilio ^b   Tirelli, Patrizio ^b  

^a Central Africa Regional Office   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Consistency; Credibility; de facto classification; Exchange rate regimes

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849124442     PISSN: 02615606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2008.06.004     Document Type: Article

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