The weekend effect, the stock exchange account and the financial times industrial ordinary shares index: 1987-1994

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-71

  Coutts, J Andrew ^a   Hayes, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0005724622     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/096031099332537     Document Type: Article

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