The expectations hypothesis, term premia, and the Canadian term structure of interest rates

Canadian Journal of Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 133-148

  Hejazi, Walid ^a   Lai, Huiwen ^a   Yang, Xian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 0008956740     PISSN: 00084085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0008-4085.00009     Document Type: Article

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