An empirical analysis of term premiums using significance tests for stochastic dominance

Economics Letters

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 195-203

  Fisher, Gordon ^a   Willson, Douglas ^b   Xu, Kuan ^c  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b MACRO INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

C10; G10; Stochastic Dominance; Term Premium

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032353368     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(98)00102-5     Document Type: Article

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