How much do investors care about macroeconomic risk? evidence from scheduled economic announcements

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 343-375

  Savor, Pavel ^a,b   Wilson, Mungo ^b,c  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84880996748     PISSN: 00221090     EISSN: 17566916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002210901300015X     Document Type: Article

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