Anomalies in finance what are they and what are they good for?

International Review of Financial Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 407-429

  Frankfurter, George M ^a   McGoun, Elton G ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomaly; Behavioral finance; Financial economics; Methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035648930     PISSN: 10575219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1057-5219(01)00061-8     Document Type: Article

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