Do competing specialists and preferencing dealers affect market quality?

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 969-993

  Battalio, Robert ^a   Greene, Jason ^b   Jennings, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0031524334     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/10.4.969     Document Type: Article

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