The cross-section of expected stock returns: What have we learnt from the past twenty-five years of research?

European Financial Management

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-42

  Subrahmanyam, Avanidhar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross section of stock returns; Market efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 73449124447     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2009.00520.x     Document Type: Article

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