Asset pricing with distorted beliefs: Are equity returns too good to be true?

American Economic Review

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 787-805

  Cecchetti, Stephen G ^a   Lam, Pok Sang ^a   Mark, Nelson C ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000013018     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.90.4.787     Document Type: Article

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