Fixed income excess returns and time to maturity

International Review of Financial Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 431-442

  Drakos, Konstantinos ^a  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Excess returns; Fixed income markets; Liquidity preference hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035648101     PISSN: 10575219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1057-5219(01)00062-X     Document Type: Article

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