The random walk hypothesis and the behaviour of foreign capital portfolio flows: The Brazilian stock market case

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 369-378

  Tabak, Benjamin Miranda ^a  

^a BANCO CENTRAL DO BRASIL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FLOW; FINANCIAL MARKET; RANDOM WALK METHOD; STOCK MARKET;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0038322955     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100210134550     Document Type: Article

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