A Theory of Large Fluctuations in Stock Market Activity
Preprint
- 1 January 2003
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
We present a theory of excess stock market volatility, in which market movements are due to trades by very large institutional investors in relatively illiquidKeywords
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