An examination of the day-of-the-week effect in junk bond returns over business cycles

Review of Financial Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 31-46

  Kohers, Theodor ^a   Patel, Jayen B ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0030529040     PISSN: 10583300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1058-3300(96)90004-X     Document Type: Article

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