The big mac index two decades on: An evaluation of burgernomics

International Journal of Finance and Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-60

  Clements, Kenneth W ^a   Lan, Yihui ^a   Seah, Shi Pei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Burgernomics; Currency forecasts; Purchasing power parity

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC THEORY; EXCHANGE RATE; INDEX METHOD; PURCHASING POWER PARITY; RANDOM WALK METHOD;

EID: 84855214893     PISSN: 10769307     EISSN: 10991158     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijfe.432     Document Type: Article

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