The impact of information release on stock price volatility and trading volume: The rights offering case

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 153-169

  Bae, Sung C ^a   Jo, Hoje ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information; Rights offering; Stock price volatility; Trading volume

Indexed keywords

EID: 8644275009     PISSN: 0924865X     EISSN: 15737179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008395810033     Document Type: Article

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