A reappraisal of the Meese-Rogoff puzzle

Applied Economics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 30-40

  Moosa, Imad ^a   Burns, Kelly ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

direction accuracy; exchange rate models; forecasting; random walk

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXCHANGE RATE; FORECASTING METHOD; MODEL; PROFITABILITY; RANDOM WALK METHOD; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84885094644     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2013.829202     Document Type: Article

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