Political elections and foreign investor trading in South Korea's financial markets

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 673-677

  Chiu, Chien Liang ^a   Chen, Chun Da ^b   Tang, Wan Wei ^c  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHING YUN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Yuanta Asset Management Ltd   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; EXCHANGE RATE; FINANCIAL MARKET; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; POLITICS;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA; SOUTH KOREA; WORLD;

EID: 25144515620     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850500190097     Document Type: Article

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