Optimum currency area in South Asia: A state space approach

International Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 502-510

  Banik, Nilanjan ^a   Biswas, Basudeb ^b   Criddle, Keith R ^c  

^a Institute for Financial Management and Research   (India)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Optimum currency area; South Asia; State space modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349254569     PISSN: 10590560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iref.2008.04.004     Document Type: Article

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