End-user order flow and exchange rate dynamics - a dealer's perspective

European Journal of Finance

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 153-168

  Reitz, Stefan ^a   Schmidt, Markus A ^a   Taylor, Mark P ^b,c,d  

^a Economics Department   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c BlackRock Investment Management   (United Kingdom)

^d CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

End user order flow JEL; Foreign exchange; Market microstructure

Indexed keywords

EID: 78951472567     PISSN: 1351847X     EISSN: 14664364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13518471003651925     Document Type: Article

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