Purchasing Power Parity and Breaking Trend Functions in the Real Exchange Rate

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
564
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
C22, F31, F40, N70
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

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