Market segmentation and stock prices discount in the Chinese stock market: Revisiting B-share discounts in the Chinese stock market

Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-40

  Lee, Bong Soo ^a   Rui, Oliver ^b   Wu, Wenfeng ^c  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

B share discount; Behavioral factor; Chinese stock markets; Information flow; Market segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863012147     PISSN: 12261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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