HALF-life deviations from ppp in the South African development community

Applied Econometrics and International Development

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 141-148

  Mokoena, Thabo M ^a   Gupta, Rangan ^b   Van Eyden, Reneé ^b  

^a South African Reserve Bank ^*  (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Half life; PPP; Real exchange rates

Indexed keywords

EID: 68249144676     PISSN: 15784487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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