Should the treasury price-discriminate? A procedure for computing hypothetical bid functions

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 413-429

  Heller, Daniel ^a   Lengwiler, Yvan ^a  

^a SWISS NATIONAL BANK   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0035647217     PISSN: 09324569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1628/0932456013621279     Document Type: Article

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