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Fixed Income

TIPS, Inflation Expectations, and the Financial Crisis

Aleksandar Andonov Aleksandar Andonov is a PhD candidate in finance at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
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Florian Bardong Florian Bardong is a fixed-income research analyst at BlackRock, London.
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Thorsten Lehnert Thorsten Lehnert is a professor of finance at the University of Luxembourg.
Pages 27-39 | Published online: 31 Dec 2018

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