Is country diversification better than industry diversification?

European Financial Management

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 319-340

  Hargis, Kent ^a   Mei, Jianping ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Market integration; Return decomposition; Time varying risk premiums

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247850922     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1354-7798.2006.00323.x     Document Type: Article

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