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

Número: 
564
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Clasificación JEL: 
C22, F31, F40, N70
Palabras clave: 
Purchasing power parity, unit root test, structural change, Balassa-Samuelson effect

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