An investigation of the unconditional distribution of South African stock index returns

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 623-633

  Beelders, O ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STOCK MARKET;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0041971398     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100210125019     Document Type: Article

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