Stock Liquidity and Return Predictability; Is There a Connec-tion? (Evidence from an Emerging Market)

Subject Areas : Financial Accounting

Mojtaba  Alifamian ¹ (Department of Accounting, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran)
Ali  Eshaghzade ² (Department of Finance, Petroleum University of Technology, Tehran, Iran)
Abdolkarim  Maleknia ³ (Department of Accounting, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2022-04-28 Accepted : 2022-09-05 Published : 2023-07-01

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