The behavior of real exchange rate: Nonlinearity and breaks

International Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 27, Issue , 2013, Pages 125-133

  Lee, Chia Hao ^a   Chou, Pei I ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAICHUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

G 20 countries; Panel SURADF test with Fourier function; Purchasing power parity; Real exchange rates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876316755     PISSN: 10590560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iref.2012.09.007     Document Type: Article

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