Central bank intervention with limited arbitrage

International Journal of Finance and Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 249-260

  Neely, Christopher J ^a   Weller, Paul A ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbitrage; Foreign exchange; Intervention; Limits to arbitrage; Noise trader

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL; CENTRAL BANK; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXCHANGE RATE; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT;

EID: 34249112813     PISSN: 10769307     EISSN: 10991158     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijfe.328     Document Type: Article

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