Do 'thinly-traded' stocks benefit from specialist intervention?

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1823-1854

  Nimalendran, Mahen ^a   Petrella, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Market quality; Specialist; Thin markets

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041530002     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4266(03)00103-1     Document Type: Article

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