Forecasting exchange rates: Do banks know better?

Global Finance Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 195-215

  Eun, Cheol S ^a   Sabherwal, Sanjiv ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Commercial banks; Forecasting; Foreign exchange rates; Random walk model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036389605     PISSN: 10440283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1044-0283(02)00047-9     Document Type: Article

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