How important are fundamentals? - Evidence from a structural VAR model for the stock markets in the US, Japan and Europe

Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 185-201

  Binswanger, Mathias ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Speculative bubbles; Stock prices; Structural vector autoregression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348233920     PISSN: 10424431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intfin.2003.06.001     Document Type: Article

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