Electoral management, political risk and exchange rate dynamics: The Greek experience

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 279-285

  Siokis, Fotios ^a   Kapopoulos, Panayotis ^a  

^a Economic Research Division   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; EXCHANGE RATE; POLITICAL ECONOMY; RISK FACTOR;

GREECE;

EID: 0038371365     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850210128839     Document Type: Article

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