The baby boom and the stock market boom

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 359-378

  Lim, Kyung Mook ^a   Weil, David N ^b  

^a Korea Development Institute   (South Korea)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asset prices; Baby boom; Demographic transition

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; MARKET DEVELOPMENT; PRICE DYNAMICS; STOCK MARKET;

EID: 0141906241     PISSN: 03470520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9442.t01-2-00003     Document Type: Article

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