Quarter-end effects in banks: Preferred habitat or window dressing?

Journal of Financial Services Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 61-82

  Kotomin, Vladimir ^a   Winters, Drew B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Preferred habitat; Window dressing

Indexed keywords

EID: 31144459731     PISSN: 09208550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10693-005-5108-1     Document Type: Article

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