Consumption, (dis)aggregate wealth, and asset returns

Journal of Empirical Finance

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 606-622

  Sousa, Ricardo M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumption; Expected returns; Financial wealth; Housing wealth

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954456073     PISSN: 09275398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jempfin.2010.02.001     Document Type: Article

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