Setting futures margins: The extremes approach

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 173-181

  Dewachter, Hans ^a   Gielens, Geert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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EID: 0038851667     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/096031099332438     Document Type: Article

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