Monetary policy and stock returns: Financing constraints and asymmetries in bull and bear markets

Journal of Empirical Finance

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 981-990

  Jansen, Dennis W ^a   Tsai, Chun Li ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Asymmetries; Bear market; Financing constraints; Monetary policy; Stock returns

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049292178     PISSN: 09275398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jempfin.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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