Scandinavian forward discount bias risk premia

Economics Letters

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 65-72

  Verschoor, Willem F C ^a   Wolff, Christian C P ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exchange rates; Expectations; F31; Risk premia; Survey data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035646613     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(01)00460-8     Document Type: Article

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