Transaction Costs and Price Volatility: Evidence from Commission Deregulation

American Economic Review

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 728-737

  Jones, Charles M ^a   Seguin, Paul J ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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