Macroeconomic Factors Do Influence Aggregate Stock Returns

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 751-782

  Flannery, Mark J ^b   Protopapadakis, Aris A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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EID: 0036292518     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/15.3.751     Document Type: Article

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