Market segmentation, liquidity spillover, and closed-end country fund discounts

Journal of Financial Markets

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 377-399

  Chan, Justin S P ^a   Jain, Ravi ^b   Xia, Yihong ^c  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asset pricing; Closed end funds; Fund premium; Liquidity

Indexed keywords

EID: 53249154912     PISSN: 13864181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.finmar.2008.01.005     Document Type: Article

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