The validity of Rodrik's conclusion on real exchange rate and economic growth: factor priority evidence from feature selection approach.
The undesirable effect of poor exchange rate policy on economic growth has been firmly established in the literature using various parametric methods of econometric techniques. However, less is known about the prioritization of the exchange rate as a determinant of economic growth using a nonparamet...
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