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Applied Economics Letters Volume 4, 1997 - Issue 5
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The trading month anomaly in the Financial Times Industrial Ordinary Shares Index: 1935–1994

Zainudin Arsad Department of Statistics, Herriot Watt University
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J. Andrew Coutts Department of Accounting and Finance, Sheffield University Management School, 9 Mappin St, Sheffield, SI 4DT, UK
Pages 297-299 | Received 16 Apr 1996, Published online: 02 Nov 2006

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