Volatility: Definitions and consequences

Managing Economic Volatility and Crises: A Practitioner's Guide

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 45-64

  Wolf, Holger ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511510755.004     Document Type: Chapter

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