Does monetary policy have asymmetric effects on stock returns?

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 39, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 667-688

  Chen, Shiu Sheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Markov switching; Monetary policy; Stock returns

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247475794     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-2879.2007.00040.x     Document Type: Article

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