The asset growth effect: Insights from international equity markets

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 529-563

  Watanabe, Akiko ^a   Xu, Yan ^b   Yao, Tong ^c   Yu, Tong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asset growth; International equity markets; Optimal investment effect; Q Theory; Return predictability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876324453     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2012.12.002     Document Type: Article

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