Empirical evidence on the role of trading suspensions in disseminating new information to the capital market

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 33, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 1142-1167

  Engelen, Peter Jan ^a   Kabir, Rezaul ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information disclosure; Regulation, stock market; Trading halt; Trading suspension

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749022491     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2006.00597.x     Document Type: Article

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