The myth of long-horizon predictability

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1577-1605

  Boudoukh, Jacob ^a,c   Richardson, Matthew ^b   Whitelaw, Robert F ^b  

^a INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER HERZLIYA   (Israel)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

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EID: 49449090032     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: 14657368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhl042     Document Type: Article

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