Factors Affecting Stock Prices Regarding Uncertainty and Asymmetric Information in Tehran Stock Exchange

Subject Areas : Financial and Economic Modelling

Monir Sadat Mirjamali Mehrabadi ¹ , Seyed Abbas Najafizadeh ² , Peyman Ghafari Ashtiani ³

1 - Department of Management, Economics College, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran
2 - Department of Management, Economics College, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran
3 - Department of Management, Economics College, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran

Received: 2019-04-19 Accepted : 2019-06-09 Published : 2021-07-01

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