Risk-return relationships in the Hong Kong stock market: Revisit

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 1047-1058

  Tang, Gordon Y N ^a,c   Shum, Wai Cheong ^b  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b MACAU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Macao)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRICE DYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKEWNESS; STOCK MARKET;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONG KONG;

EID: 33749170644     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100500426671     Document Type: Article

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