A tail index tour across foreign exchange rate regimes in Turkey

Applied Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 381-397

  Payaslioǧlu, Cem ^a  

^a EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENCY MARKET; EXCHANGE RATE; INDEX METHOD; STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 58949100458     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840601007211     Document Type: Article

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