Are international equity markets really asymmetric?

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 399-411

  Kearney, Colm ^a   Lynch, Margaret ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EQUITY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SKEWNESS; STOCK MARKET;

ASIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAR EAST; FRANCE; GERMANY; ITALY; JAPAN; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33947194393     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100500401336     Document Type: Article

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