Price limits and stock market volatility

Economics Letters

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 131-136

  Kim, Kenneth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

G15; G18; Price limits; Stock market volatility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035580343     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(00)00403-1     Document Type: Article

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