The behaviour of UK stock prices and returns: Is the market effecient?

Economic Journal

Volumn 107, Issue 443, 1997, Pages 986-1008

  Cuthbertson, Keith ^a   Hayes, Simon ^a   Nitzsche, Dirk ^a  

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EID: 0000384417     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.1997.tb00003.x     Document Type: Article

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