Investor sentiment, market timing, and futures returns

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 891-898

  Wang, Changyun ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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Indexed keywords

INVESTMENT; MARKET CONDITIONS;

EID: 0344552458     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0960310032000129653     Document Type: Article

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