Stock splits: Implications for investor trading costs

Journal of Empirical Finance

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 271-303

  Gray, Stephen F ^a,b   Smith, Tom ^c   Whaley, Robert E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Investor trading costs; Stock splits

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037404873     PISSN: 09275398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5398(02)00049-X     Document Type: Article

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