The impact of the introduction of futures contracts on the spot market volatility: The case of Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 143-154

  Pok, Wee Ching ^a   Poshakwale, Sunil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL MARKET; MARKET CONDITIONS; STOCK MARKET;

ASIA; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 1242333307     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0960310042000176416     Document Type: Article

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