How much intraregional exchange rate variability could a currency union remove? The case of ASEAN+3

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1793-1803

  Qin, Duo ^a   Tan, Tao ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Currency union; Dynamic factor model; Latent variables; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350075940     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2009.05.011     Document Type: Article

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