Stocks are special too: An analysis of the equity lending market

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 66, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 241-269

  Geczy, Christopher C ^a   Musto, David K ^a   Reed, Adam V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

IPO; Merger arbitrage; Security lending; Short selling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000774157     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0304-405x(02)00225-8     Document Type: Article

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