Forward foreign exchange rates and expected future spot rates

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 371-377

  Wolff, Christian C P ^a,b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0039174203     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100050031499     Document Type: Article

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