Limits of arbitrage

Annual Review of Financial Economics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 251-275

  Gromb, Denis ^a,b   Vayanos, Dimitri ^b,c,d  

^a INSEAD   (France)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Financial constraints; Financial institutions; Liquidity; Market anomalies

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952609480     PISSN: 19411367     EISSN: 19411375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-financial-073009-104107     Document Type: Article

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