Seasonality in stock returns: Evidence from an emerging market

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-71

  Al Saad, Khalid ^a,b   Moosa, Imad A ^a,b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARKET CONDITIONS; STOCK MARKET;

EID: 12144284642     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0960310042000281185     Document Type: Article

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