Empirical cross-sectional asset pricing

Annual Review of Financial Economics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2013, Pages 167-199

  Nagel, Stefan ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

asset pricing; cross section of stock returns; equity markets

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889038095     PISSN: 19411367     EISSN: 19411375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-financial-110112-121009     Document Type: Article

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