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ARE JAPANESE STOCK PRICES TOO HIGH? 0 0 0 0 1 5 13 542
Characteristics, Covariances, and Average Returns: 1929 to 1997 0 0 0 1 1 6 14 847
Characteristics, Covariances, and Average Returns: 1929-1997 0 0 0 3 0 3 9 868
Common Factors in the Serial Correlation of Stock Returns 0 0 1 99 1 3 9 223
Disappearing Dividends: Changing Firm Characteristics or Lower Propensity to Pay?." 0 0 0 52 1 45 137 2,263
Forecasting Profitability and Earnings 0 0 0 1 5 7 13 816
Forecasting Profitability and Earnings 0 0 0 1 6 8 15 1,219
Investor Diversification and International Equity Markets 3 3 9 2,197 11 21 67 6,255
Newly Listed Firms: Fundamentals, Survival Rates, and Returns 0 0 1 485 0 4 8 1,091
Sunk Costs and Competitive Bidding 0 0 1 9 0 6 8 34
Taxes, Financing Decisions, and Firm Value 0 0 0 2 2 9 18 909
Testing Tradeoff and Pecking Order Predictions about Dividends and Debt.” 0 0 0 120 5 16 53 2,028
The Corporate Cost of Capital and the Return on Corporate Investment 0 0 0 0 1 5 11 885
The Corporate Cost of Capital and the Return on Corporate Investment 0 0 0 0 1 5 6 827
The Equity Premium." 0 0 0 567 2 5 12 2,599
Value Versus Growth: The International Evidence 0 0 0 3 4 15 31 1,638
Value versus Growth: The International Evidence 0 0 0 3 5 15 34 1,459
Were Japanese Stock Prices Too High? 0 0 0 200 2 4 9 792
Total Working Papers 3 3 12 3,743 48 182 467 25,295


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A comparison of futures and forward prices 1 1 3 370 1 6 14 795
A five-factor asset pricing model 23 73 218 2,098 98 257 876 7,496
Aligning Incentives at Systemically Important Financial Institutions: A Proposal by the Squam Lake Group 0 0 0 47 1 7 11 175
Anomalies in Security Returns and the Specification of the Market Model: Discussion 0 0 0 24 0 1 4 85
Average Returns, B/M, and Share Issues 0 2 2 166 1 10 13 490
Business conditions and expected returns on stocks and bonds 4 14 34 3,477 8 36 94 6,513
Capital Structure Choices 1 2 6 142 2 9 21 335
Characteristics, Covariances, and Average Returns: 1929 to 1997 1 2 25 456 3 8 62 1,080
Choosing factors 2 14 49 1,348 9 45 172 3,290
Commodity Futures Prices: Some Evidence on Forecast Power, Premiums,and the Theory of Storage 11 38 142 2,441 40 122 355 4,593
Common risk factors in the returns on stocks and bonds 40 79 262 15,311 110 270 877 30,909
Comparing Cross-Section and Time-Series Factor Models 4 8 22 223 19 35 87 615
DISAPPEARING DIVIDENDS: CHANGING FIRM CHARACTERISTICS OR LOWER PROPENSITY TO PAY? 4 9 14 279 10 41 74 1,006
Detecting Spot Price Forecasts in Futures Prices 1 1 2 223 2 9 13 519
Disagreement, tastes, and asset prices 1 4 26 768 4 20 69 1,690
Disappearing dividends: changing firm characteristics or lower propensity to pay? 3 5 29 1,631 13 41 170 4,419
Dissecting Anomalies 1 8 29 678 12 30 105 1,877
Dissecting Anomalies with a Five-Factor Model 4 10 18 1,198 9 26 59 2,542
Dividend yields and expected stock returns 6 8 40 4,362 9 23 99 8,470
Effects of Nominal Contracting on Stock Returns 0 1 3 69 4 9 15 272
Expected stock returns and volatility 1 2 14 1,618 4 18 54 3,774
Financing decisions: who issues stock? 1 1 5 1,651 1 6 23 4,450
Forecasting Profitability and Earnings 2 6 17 1,368 7 21 59 3,847
House Prices and Rents 1 2 9 10 2 9 32 36
Incremental variables and the investment opportunity set 0 0 1 66 0 6 14 270
Industry costs of equity 5 12 47 4,454 15 42 135 8,670
International tests of a five-factor asset pricing model 9 13 32 796 32 54 127 2,316
Investor Diversification and International Equity Markets 3 7 23 1,708 18 61 128 4,932
Japanese and U.S. cross-border common stock investments 0 0 0 91 1 6 13 233
Luck versus Skill in the Cross‐Section of Mutual Fund Returns 3 11 40 350 26 73 174 1,259
Michael C. Jensen’s empirical work 0 1 1 1 7 25 34 34
Migration 0 0 0 0 3 11 16 17
Multifactor Explanations of Asset Pricing Anomalies 11 12 38 2,817 23 35 149 6,790
New lists: Fundamentals and survival rates 1 3 4 421 5 23 43 1,088
O modelo de precificação de ativos de capital: teoria e evidências 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 25
PRICING FINANCIAL FUTURES CONTRACTS: AN INTRODUCTION 0 0 1 64 0 5 8 128
Permanent and Temporary Components of Stock Prices 1 1 15 3,444 9 17 69 9,567
Presidential Address: The Cost of Active Investing 9 25 54 739 22 58 149 1,854
Profitability, investment and average returns 1 3 18 1,005 5 16 69 2,393
Sealed Bids, Sunk Costs, and the Process of Competition 0 0 1 183 1 3 7 560
Size and Book-to-Market Factors in Earnings and Returns 2 3 11 1,894 2 18 60 4,254
Size, value, and momentum in international stock returns 1 6 40 2,163 16 50 168 6,320
Stock return variances: The arrival of information and the reaction of traders 1 2 12 2,589 4 13 45 5,189
Stock returns and the weekend effect 2 9 24 2,875 9 35 69 5,696
Taxes and the Pricing of Stock Index Futures 0 0 1 200 1 3 8 431
The Anatomy of Value and Growth Stock Returns 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 5
The CAPM Is Wanted, Dead or Alive 2 8 21 1,748 4 20 58 4,109
The Capital Asset Pricing Model: Theory and Evidence 4 11 39 2,267 37 140 290 8,431
The Corporate Cost of Capital and the Return on Corporate Investment 1 2 6 406 3 8 21 1,333
The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns 6 19 78 9,104 50 135 419 23,525
The Equity Premium 3 5 13 588 6 26 72 1,215
The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System 1 1 3 195 2 8 25 819
The Value Premium 6 10 34 104 26 51 123 289
The Value Premium and the CAPM 1 3 9 627 1 6 31 1,551
The pricing of stock index futures 0 0 3 77 0 3 13 184
Trading mechanisms and value-discovery: Cross-national evidence and policy implications: A comment 0 0 0 10 2 3 5 65
Volatility Lessons 0 1 2 2 0 4 8 8
Were Japanese stock prices too high? 0 0 0 217 0 3 8 780
Total Journal Articles 185 458 1,540 81,166 700 2,021 5,922 193,618


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System 0 0 0 0 1 3 10 117
Total Books 0 0 0 0 1 3 10 117


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Commodity Futures Prices: Some Evidence on Forecast Power, Premiums, and the Theory of Storage 4 9 20 169 7 24 57 355
Crash-Testing the Efficient Market Hypothesis 1 1 1 129 3 10 13 288
Introduction 0 0 0 3 1 2 6 45
Total Chapters 5 10 21 301 11 36 76 688


Statistics updated 2026-04-09