Stock returns and real activity in the G-7 countries: Did the relationship change during the 1980s?

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 237-252

  Binswanger, Mathias ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

G 7 countries; Real activity; Speculative bubbles; Stock returns

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542611482     PISSN: 10629769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2003.07.001     Document Type: Article

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