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Using ROC techniques to measure the effectiveness of foreign exchange market interventions

Christian PierdziochDepartment of Economics, Helmut-Schmidt-University, Hamburg, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 389-393 | Published online: 14 Aug 2015

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