Efficiency of Bangladesh stock market: Evidence from monthly index and individual firm data

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 749-758

  Hassan, M K ^a,b   Chowdhury, S S H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^b MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL MARKET; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; INDEX METHOD; STOCK MARKET;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 43149111327     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100701320178     Document Type: Article

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