Electronic trading and market efficiency in an emerging market: The case of the Jordanian capital market

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 5-19

  Maghyereh, Aktham ^a  

^a HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Amman Stock Exchange; Electronic trading system; Evolving market efficiency; Kalman filter

Indexed keywords

EID: 26944480774     PISSN: 1540496X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1540496x.2005.11052615     Document Type: Article

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