The regulation of insider dealing in the UK: Some empirical evidence concerning share prices, merger bids and bidders' advising merchant banks

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 383-391

  Barnes, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0344807092     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/096031096334204     Document Type: Article

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