The behaviour of real exchange rates (relative to the US dollar) is examined using monthly data obtained from the black markets for foreign exchange of eight Asian developing countries. The data span is 31 years. The black market real exchange rates do not show excess volatility during the recent Β―o
Disaggregate Real Exchange Rate Behaviour
β Scribed by Giorgio Fazio; Peter McAdam; Ronald MacDonald
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 207 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0923-7992
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