Doubling: Nick Leeson's trading strategy

Pacific Basin Finance Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 83-99

  Brown, Stephen J ^a   Steenbeek, Onno W ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Barings bank; Doubling; G13; G28; Nick Leeson

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042851815     PISSN: 0927538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-538X(01)00004-X     Document Type: Article

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