Fundamentally Wrong: Market Pricing of Sovereigns and the Greek Financial Crisis

Journal of Macroeconomics

Volumn 39, Issue PB, 2014, Pages 405-419

  Gibson, Heather D ^a   Hall, Stephen G ^a,b,c   Tavlas, George S ^a  

^a Bank of Greece ^*  (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Euro area financial crisis; Sovereign spreads

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897370544     PISSN: 01640704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2013.08.006     Document Type: Article

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