The Greek implied volatility index: Construction and properties

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 1187-1196

  Skiadopoulos, George ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL MARKET; INVESTMENT; STOCK MARKET;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 9144261680     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0960310042000280438     Document Type: Article

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