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Price Discovery in Illiquid Markets: Do Financial Asset Prices Rise Faster Than They Fall?

  1. RICHARD C. GREEN,
  2. DAN LI,
  3. NORMAN SCHÜRHOFF*

Article first published online: 21 SEP 2010

DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2010.01590.x

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The Journal of Finance

The Journal of Finance

Volume 65, Issue 5, pages 1669–1702, October 2010

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GREEN, R. C., LI, D. and SCHÜRHOFF, N. (2010), Price Discovery in Illiquid Markets: Do Financial Asset Prices Rise Faster Than They Fall?. The Journal of Finance, 65: 1669–1702. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2010.01590.x

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* Richard C. Green is with the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, Dan Li is with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and Norman Schürhoff is with the Faculty of Business and Economics at University of Lausanne, Swiss Finance Institute, and CEPR. The third author acknowledges research support from the Swiss Finance Institute and from NCCR FINRISK of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Seminar participants at Arizona State, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, George Mason, Lausanne, Miami, Oklahoma, Oxford, and Wharton provided helpful comments and guidance. We greatly appreciate the feedback from our discussants Larry Harris, Adam Kolasinski, and Bruce Lehmann and conference participants at the AFA 2009, EFA 2008, and 2nd Workshop on Financial Market Quality. An anonymous referee and Associate Editor, along with the Editor, Campbell Harvey, have done much to improve the paper. We thank Tal Heppenstall, J.C. Stilley, and Jim Konieczny of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for conversations that alerted us to the problems studied in this paper.

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  1. Issue published online: 21 SEP 2010
  2. Article first published online: 21 SEP 2010

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