Market transparency, liquidity externalities, and institutional trading costs in corporate bonds

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 251-288

  Bessembinder, Hendrik ^a   Maxwell, William ^b   Venkataraman, Kumar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate bonds; Institutional trading costs; Market transparency

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749143202     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2005.10.002     Document Type: Article

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