The Responses of Interest Rate Spreads to Information Releases
β Scribed by Raj Aggarwal; Mukesh Chaudhry; Rohan Christie-David; Timothy W. Koch
- Book ID
- 110298904
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 137 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0924-865X
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