Contrarian investment in the dutch stock market

Economist

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 573-598

  Doeswijk, R Q ^a,b,c  

^a RABOBANK   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c IRIS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contrarian investment strategies; Efficient market hyphothesis; Irrational investors; Outperformance; Return; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342507778     PISSN: 0013063X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003133310376     Document Type: Article

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