Winners and losers from the introduction of continuous variable price trading: Evidence from the Riga Stock Exchange

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 603-624

  Kairys Jr , Joseph P ^a   Kruza, Raimonds ^b   Kumpins, Ritvars ^c  

^a VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b Riga Stock Exchange   (Latvia)

^c Parex Bank Corporation   (Latvia)

Author keywords

Emerging markets; G12; G14; G15; G18; Liquidity; Market microstructure; Trading systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006761284     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4266(99)00082-5     Document Type: Article

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