Culture and stock price clustering: Evidence from The Peoples' Republic of China

Pacific Basin Finance Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 95-120

  Brown, Philip ^a,b   Mitchell, Jason ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Feng shui; Number preferences; Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges; Stock price clustering

Indexed keywords

EID: 36549053509     PISSN: 0927538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2007.04.005     Document Type: Article

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