A note on return distribution of UK stock indices

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 573-576

  Balaban, Ercan ^a   Ouenniche, Jamal ^a   Politou, Danae ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDEX METHOD; STOCK MARKET;

EID: 23144460210     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850500120383     Document Type: Article

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