Impacts of interval measurement on studies of economic variability: Evidence from stock market variability forecasting

Journal of Risk Finance

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 489-507

  He, Ling T ^a   Hu, Chenyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic forecasting; Stock markets

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015649382     PISSN: 15265943     EISSN: 09657967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/15265940710834771     Document Type: Article

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