Corporate social responsibility and stock market performance

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 1283-1293

  Becchetti, Leonardo ^a   Ciciretti, Rocco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; MODELING; STOCK MARKET; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION;

EID: 70449573102     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100802584854     Document Type: Article

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