Causality and price discovery: An application of directed acyclic graphs

Journal of Business

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1099-1121

  Halgh, Michael S ^a   Bessler, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 15744384541     PISSN: 00219398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/422632     Document Type: Article

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