Neighbors Matter: Causal Community Effects and Stock Market Participation

Journal of Finance

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1509-1531

  Brown, Jeffrey R ^a   Ivković, Zoran ^b   Smith, Paul A ^c   Weisbenner, Scott ^a  

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

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

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EID: 43649091935     PISSN: 00221082     EISSN: 15406261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2008.01364.x     Document Type: Article

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