Industry Differences in the Persistence of Firm-Specific Returns

American Economic Review

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1253-1265

  Waring, Geoffrey F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

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