The Composition of Foreign Reserves of the Central Banks of Selected Countries: Will the Euro Replace the Dollar?

Eurasian Economic Review

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 143-156

  Komijani, Akbar ^a   Tavakolian, Hossein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Euro; Foreign reserves; US dollar

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879557341     PISSN: 1309422X     EISSN: 2147429X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14208/BF03353828     Document Type: Article

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