Emerging markets and trading costs: Lessons from Casablanca

Journal of Empirical Finance

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 169-198

  Ghysels, Eric ^a,b   Cherkaoui, Mouna ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b CIRANO   (Canada)

^c MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Market; Stock; Trading cost

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037315048     PISSN: 09275398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5398(02)00026-9     Document Type: Article

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