Firm characteristics and stock returns: The role of investment-specific shocks

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2718-2759

  Kogan, Leonid ^a   Papanikolaou, Dimitris ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

E22; G10; G11; G12

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878560832     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: 14657368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hht026     Document Type: Article

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