This article has benefited from the comments and suggestions of two anonymous reviewers. ## 1 Of course, speculation based on fundamentals is likely to be stabilizing rather than destabilizing. Destabilizing speculation may be the result of noise trading (i.e., buying and selling not on the basis
Stock Index Futures and Cash Market Volatility
โ Scribed by Edwin D. Maberly, David S. Allen and Roy F. Gilbert
- Book ID
- 124929560
- Publisher
- CFA Institute
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 564 KB
- Volume
- 45
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0015-198X
- DOI
- 10.2307/4479281
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