Behavioural biases among interest rate forecasters?

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 319-321

  Pons Novell, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING METHOD; INTEREST RATE;

EID: 2342544973     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1350485042000221607     Document Type: Article

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