Electoral information in developed stock market: Testing conditional heteroscedasticity in the market model

Applied Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1125-1131

  Chuang, Chung Chu ^a   Wang, Yi Hsien ^b  

^a ALETHEIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b YUANPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; INVESTMENT; MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOCK MARKET;

EID: 77950871258     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840701721117     Document Type: Article

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