## Abstract According to one strand of the international finance literature, market efficiency implies that the real exchange rate follows a martingale process, in direct conflict with the long‐run absolute purchasing power parity hypothesis, which requires a stationary real exchange rate process.
Real exchange rates and target interest rates in a simple VAR model
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- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 248 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1617-982X
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