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The Effects Of Etf Splits On Returns, Liquidity, And Individual Investors, Susana Yu, Gwendolyn Webb
The Effects Of Etf Splits On Returns, Liquidity, And Individual Investors, Susana Yu, Gwendolyn Webb
Department of Accounting and Finance Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to extend the literature on the effects of stock splits from mutual funds splits and the QQQ split to 20 exchange traded funds (ETFs) that span a wide variety of indexes. The split sample is compared to a non-split control sample with similar characteristics between 2000 and 2006. The objectives of this study are to investigate whether the results are different between the split sample and the control sample; and whether these results are similar to other investment vehicles in the existing literature. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines stock excess returns, total …