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Real and nominal effective exchange rates for African countries

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  • Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee
  • Abera Gelan

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The real effective exchange rate is an index that is used to measure international competitiveness of a country. While the International Monetary Fund constructs and publishes the index for all industrial and some newly industrialized countries, the African nations receive no such attention. In this article we construct quarterly indexes of real and nominal effective exchange rates over the 1971I-2004III period for 21 African countries. We hope by publishing this data set, more research attention will be given to these countries. As an application, we test for the stationarity of the real effective rates to show that the Purchasing Power Parity theory holds only in four of our 21 cases.

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  • Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee & Abera Gelan, 2007. "Real and nominal effective exchange rates for African countries," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(8), pages 961-979.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:39:y:2007:i:8:p:961-979
    DOI: 10.1080/00036840500447922
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    15. Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Abera Gelan, 2019. "On The Link between Real Exchange Rate and Domestic Investment: Asymmetric Evidence from Africa," Journal of Economic Development, Chung-Ang Unviersity, Department of Economics, vol. 44(3), pages 1-17, September.
    16. Juan Carlos Cuestas & Barry Harrison, 2009. "Further evidence on the Real Interest Rate Parity hypothesis in Central and Eastern European Countries: unit roots and nonlinearities," NBS Discussion Papers in Economics 2009/1, Economics, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University.

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