The effects of market liberalizations on return, risk, and co-movement of China's A-and B-share stock markets

Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 695-730

  Chen, Dar Hsin ^a   Lu, Chung Ying ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Abnormal returns; Chinese stock markets; Market liberalization; Market segmentation; Ownership restriction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863011376     PISSN: 12261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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