Expectations and the black market premium for foreign currency in Greece

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 667-677

  Diamandis, Panayiotis F ^a   Kouretas, Georgios P ^b   Zarangas, Leonidas ^c  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c Epirus Institute of Technology Arta   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENCY MARKET; MARKET CONDITIONS;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 22144459791     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100500107842     Document Type: Article

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