Political uncertainty, financial crisis and market volatility

European Financial Management

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 639-657

  Mei, Jianping ^a,b   Guo, Limin ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Shenzhen Municipal Planning   (China)

Author keywords

Currency devaluation; G12; Market contagion; Political elections

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349623283     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1354-7798.2004.00269.x     Document Type: Article

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