The predictive ability of dividend and earnings yields for long-term stock returns

Financial Review

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 97-124

  Wu, Chunchi ^a   Wang, Xu Ming ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dividend signaling; Mean reversion; Nonstationarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84967455517     PISSN: 07328516     EISSN: 15406288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6288.2000.tb01416.x     Document Type: Article

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