Random walks middle eastern stock markets

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 587-596

  Smith, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRICE DYNAMICS; RANDOM WALK METHOD; STOCK MARKET;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; JORDAN; KUWAIT [MIDDLE EAST]; LEBANON; MIDDLE EAST; OMAN;

EID: 34247634571     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100600911200     Document Type: Article

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