Introduction: Welfare, rationality and integrity in futures markets

Models of Futures Markets

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-14

  Goss, Barry A ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203714591-7     Document Type: Chapter

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