On the trading volume and time effects on the bid-ask spread components of NYSE and NASDAQ common stocks

The study of the bid-ask spreads of stocks is important since they constitute the mechanism through which trading costs are incorporated into prices and recovered by market-makers. Realized spreads are a measure of the trading costs which private and institutional investors have to cover whereas quo...

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Main Author: Spirakos-Papastavridis, Spiridon
Published: University of Warwick 2004
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.403135