Exchange rates and FOMC days

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1245-1266

  Ahn, Seung Chan ^a   Melvin, Michael ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Barclays Global Investors

Author keywords

Central bank policy; Exchange rates; FOMC; Microstructure

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547434819     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2007.00064.x     Document Type: Article

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