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Price Limits and Volatility of stock returns in Damascus Stock Exchange

الحدود السعرية و تقلبات عوائد الأسهم في سوق دمشق للأوراق المالية

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 Publication date 2017
  fields Financial
and research's language is العربية
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This study sought to investigate the effect of price limits on the volatility of stock returns on the Damascus Stock Exchange. Where the study period divided into two periods the first test period 3/3/2009 and until 23/6/2011, the second test period 13/2/2011 until 30/3/2017. Using the model (1,1) GARCH.



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