Is the adverse selection component really higher on the NYSE/Amex than on the Nasdaq?

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 29, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 807-824

  Van Ness, Bonnie F ^a   Ness, Robert A Van ^a   Warr, Richard S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0042286589     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5957.00451     Document Type: Article

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