Does data frequency matter for the impact of forward premium on spot exchange rate?

International Review of Financial Analysis

Volumn 39, Issue , 2015, Pages 45-53

  Narayan, Paresh Kumar ^a   Sharma, Susan Sunila ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data frequency; Exchange rate; Forward premium; Investors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923545070     PISSN: 10575219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.irfa.2015.01.011     Document Type: Article

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