Asset prices and current account fluctuations in G-7 economies

IMF Staff Papers

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 633-654

  Fratzscher, Marcel ^a   Straub, Roland ^a  

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EID: 67949088359     PISSN: 10207635     EISSN: 15645150     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1057/imfsp.2009.8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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