Pre-holiday effect, large trades and small investor behaviour

Journal of Empirical Finance

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 231-246

  Meneu, Vicente ^a   Pardo, Angel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Liquidity; Order size; Pre holiday effect; Small investor

Indexed keywords

EID: 1342307423     PISSN: 09275398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jempfin.2003.01.002     Document Type: Article

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