The Spirit of Capitalism and Stock-Market Prices

American Economic Review

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 133-157

  Bakshi, Gurdip S ^a,b   Chen, Zhiwu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; MARKET PRICE; STOCK MARKET; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0029799404     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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