Hedging with stock index futures: Theory and application in a new market
✍ Scribed by Stephen Figlewski
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 966 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-7314
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