Internalization and stock price clustering: Finnish evidence

Journal of International Money and Finance

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 737-751

  Booth, G Geoffrey ^a   Kallunki, Juha Pekka ^b   Lin, Ji Chai ^c   Martikainen, Teppo ^d  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Clustering; Helsinki stock exchange; Internalization; Preference trading

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034288462     PISSN: 02615606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0261-5606(00)00022-x     Document Type: Article

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