The interaction between technical currency trading and exchange rate fluctuations

Finance Research Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 212-233

  Schulmeister, Stephan ^a  

^a AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH WIFO   (Austria)

Author keywords

Exchange rate; Heterogeneous agents; Order flows; Speculation; Technical trading

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747833685     PISSN: 15446123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2006.03.005     Document Type: Article

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