Political stock markets and unreliable polls

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 205-222

  Bohm, Peter ^a   Sonnegård, Joakim ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Prime Minister's Office   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Betting games; Political stock markets; Polls; Referenda; Swedish 1994 EU referendum

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038938037     PISSN: 03470520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9442.00153     Document Type: Article

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