Fight or flight? portfolio rebalancing by individual investors

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 301-348

  Calvet, Laurent E ^a   Campbell, John Y ^a   Sodini, Paolo ^a  

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EID: 62949175134     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/qjec.2009.124.1.301     Document Type: Article

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