Trading volume: Definitions, data analysis, and implications of portfolio theory

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 257-300

  Lo, Andrew W ^a   Wang, Jiang ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0034382837     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/13.2.257     Document Type: Article

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