Behavioural finance: A review and synthesis

European Financial Management

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 12-29

  Subrahmanyam, Avanidhar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioural finance; Cross section of stock returns; Market efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 37648999141     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2007.00415.x     Document Type: Article

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