Local does as local is: Information content of the geography of individual investors' common stock investments

Journal of Finance

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 267-306

  Ivkovic, Zoran ^a   Weisbenner, Scott ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NBER ^*

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EID: 12344320638     PISSN: 00221082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2005.00730.x     Document Type: Review

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