Michael Salinger has provided a very thoughtful and well-balanced article on margin requirements. The article builds upon and extends some of my earlier work on margin requirements and stock market volatility. Professor Salinger, however, reaches a different conclusion than I did about the influence
Circuit breakers and stock market volatility
β Scribed by G. J. Santoni; Tung Liu
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 889 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-7314
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