A New Approach for Measuring Volatility of the Exchange rate
β Scribed by Serenis, Dimitrios; Tsounis, Nicholas
- Book ID
- 119650248
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 131 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 2212-5671
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