Business cycles and the relation between security returns and earnings

Review of Accounting Studies

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 93-117

  Johnson, Marilyn F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 0742276615     PISSN: 13806653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009649018325     Document Type: Article

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