Closed-end fund discounts and expected investment performance

Financial Review

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 179-202

  Ferguson, Robert ^a   Leistikow, Dean ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Closed end fund discounts; Expected investment performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947269752     PISSN: 07328516     EISSN: 15406288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0732-8516.2004.00072.x     Document Type: Article

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