We show that the changes in expectations of future income driven by exogenous factors (such as the discovery of oil, an increase in global demand for natural resources, etc.) can cause movements in the real exchange rate (RER) in excess of, and sometimes even in the opposite direction to, what...

We compare the small sample performance (in terms of bias and root mean squared error) of L-moment estimator of 3-parameter Weibull distribution with Maximum likelihood Estimation (MLE), Moment Estimation (MoE), Least squared estimation (LSE), the Modified MLE (MMLE), Modified MoE (MMoE), and...