Speculative trading and stock prices: Evidence from Chinese A-B share premia

Annals of Economics and Finance

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 225-255

  Mei, Jianping ^a   Scheinkman, José A ^b   Xiong, Wei ^b  

^a Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business   (China)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Speculative bubble; Trading volume

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450195011     PISSN: 15297373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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