Accounting information and bid-ask spreads

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 50-60

  Callahan, Carolyn M ^a   Lee, Charles M C ^b   Yohn, Teri Lombardi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77249126096     PISSN: 08887993     EISSN: 15587975     Source Type: Journal    
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