Foreign-currency bonds: Currency choice and the role of uncovered and covered interest parity

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 601-626

  Habib, Maurizio Michael ^a   Joy, Mark ^b  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENCY MARKET; EXCHANGE RATE; GLOBALIZATION; INTEREST RATE; LENDING BEHAVIOR; MONETARY POLICY; SAVINGS;

EID: 77951150852     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100903459949     Document Type: Article

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