How safe are money market funds?

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1073-1122

  Kacperczyk, Marcin ^a   Schnabl, Philipp ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCE; FINANCIAL CRISIS; FINANCIAL MARKET; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84880317974     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjt010     Document Type: Article

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