I asked my graduate student research assistant to research the whole literature and find out where did the word forward rate come from.

我让我的助研去查找,所有相关文献,试图找到,谁最先提出了远期利率的概念

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My graduate student came back and said, it seems to have been Sir John Hicks in London in his 1931--1939 book, A Value in Capital.

我的助研说,约翰·理查德·希克斯勋爵,1904-1989,英国经济学家1972年与肯尼斯·阿罗一同获得诺贝尔经济学奖,在1939年所写的《资产价值》

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