What does stock ownership breadth measure?

Review of Finance

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1239-1278

  Choi, James J ^a   Jin, Li ^b   Yan, Hongjun ^a  

^a YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

G02; G12; G14

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878840134     PISSN: 15723097     EISSN: 1573692X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rof/rfs026     Document Type: Article

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