On the robustness of size and book-to-market in cross-sectional regressions

Journal of Finance

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1355-1382

  Knez, Peter J ^b   Ready, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0002507239     PISSN: 00221082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1997.tb01113.x     Document Type: Article

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