Beta bias in low-priced stocks due to trading price rounding

Stocks and similar securities are normally traded in prices which are integral multiples of one-eiqhth of a dollar (a few are traded in one-sixteenths of a dollar). This price constraint may introduce a bias in the estimates of beta for low-priced securities, and the purpose of this dissertation is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Young, Walter Lewis
Other Authors: General Business
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/74209