What drives provincial-Canada yield spreads?

Canadian Journal of Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1008-1032

  Booth, Laurence ^a   Georgopoulos, George ^b   Hejazi, Walid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET DEFICIT; CORPORATE STRATEGY; DATA SET; DEBT; FISCAL POLICY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34547223019     PISSN: 00084085     EISSN: 15405982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.00440.x     Document Type: Article

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