Anomalies and stock returns: Australian evidence

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 555-576

  Gharghori, Philip ^a   Lee, Ronald ^a   Veeraraghavan, Madhu ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anomalies; Book to market effect; Famafrench model; Size effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249094644     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2009.00298.x     Document Type: Article

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