Is it the weather?

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 526-540

  Jacobsen, Ben ^a   Marquering, Wessel ^b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Seasonal affective disorder; Sell in May; Spurious correlations; Stock market seasonality; Temperature effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 41149132989     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2007.08.004     Document Type: Article

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