Nonlinearities in real exchange rate determination: Do African exchange rates follow a random walk?

Applied Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 243-258

  Cuestas, Juan Carlos ^a   Mourelle, Estefanía ^b  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODELING; NONLINEARITY; RANDOM WALK METHOD; REAL EXCHANGE RATE; TESTING METHOD;

AFRICA;

EID: 78651085631     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840802467065     Document Type: Article

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