Clustering in US stock prices after decimalisation

European Financial Management

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 30-54

  Ikenberry, David L ^a   Weston, James P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decimalisation; Investor behaviour; Price clustering

Indexed keywords

EID: 37649013604     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2007.00410.x     Document Type: Article

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