Momentum in the UK stock market

Journal of Multinational Financial Management

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 43-70

  Hon, Mark T ^a   Tonks, Ian ^b  

^a St Louis University (Madrid Campus)   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrarian strategies; Momentum

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037290689     PISSN: 1042444X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1042-444X(02)00022-1     Document Type: Article

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