International stock return comovements

Journal of Finance

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2591-2626

  Bekaert, Geert ^a   Hodrick, Robert J ^a   Zhang, Xiaoyan ^b  

^a The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

^b The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management   (United States)

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EID: 70350565019     PISSN: 00221082     EISSN: 15406261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2009.01512.x     Document Type: Article

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