Does idiosyncratic risk matter? Evidence from European stock markets

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 125-137

  Angelidis, Timotheos ^a,b   Tessaromatis, Nikolaos ^b  

^a Athens Laboratory of Business Administration   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING METHOD; MARKET CONDITIONS; STOCK MARKET;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 36749002238     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100601118276     Document Type: Article

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