The risk-return relations: Evidence from the Korean and Taiwan stock markets

Applied Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 1905-1919

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

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKEWNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCK MARKET;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA; TAIWAN;

EID: 34547962648     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840600690280     Document Type: Article

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