An empirical analysis of the NZX's price query system

Pacific Accounting Review

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 4-28

  Marsden, Alastair ^a   Poskitt, Russell ^a   Wang, Cherry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Disclosure; Insider trading; Markets; Prices

Indexed keywords

EID: 80155128220     PISSN: 01140582     EISSN: 20415494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01140580810872825     Document Type: Article

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