Business conditions and nonrandom walk behaviour of US stocks and bonds returns

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 659-672

  Jirasakuldech, B ^a   Emekter, Riza ^b   Lee, Unro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC   (United States)

^b ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; MARKOV CHAIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOCK MARKET;

EID: 42549092341     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100701222242     Document Type: Article

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