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ARE JAPANESE STOCK PRICES TOO HIGH? 0 0 0 0 1 1 16 546
Characteristics, Covariances, and Average Returns: 1929 to 1997 0 0 0 1 0 1 16 851
Characteristics, Covariances, and Average Returns: 1929-1997 0 0 0 3 1 2 12 873
Common Factors in the Serial Correlation of Stock Returns 0 0 1 100 0 0 8 227
Disappearing Dividends: Changing Firm Characteristics or Lower Propensity to Pay?." 0 0 0 52 2 12 156 2,286
Forecasting Profitability and Earnings 0 0 0 1 2 4 20 1,227
Forecasting Profitability and Earnings 0 0 0 1 1 1 12 818
Investor Diversification and International Equity Markets 1 1 7 2,199 6 11 85 6,290
Newly Listed Firms: Fundamentals, Survival Rates, and Returns 0 1 2 487 0 2 16 1,100
Sunk Costs and Competitive Bidding 0 0 0 9 0 0 9 37
Taxes, Financing Decisions, and Firm Value 0 0 0 2 0 2 19 912
Testing Tradeoff and Pecking Order Predictions about Dividends and Debt.” 0 0 0 120 1 7 66 2,051
The Corporate Cost of Capital and the Return on Corporate Investment 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 830
The Corporate Cost of Capital and the Return on Corporate Investment 0 0 0 0 1 1 14 890
The Equity Premium." 0 0 0 567 0 2 20 2,609
Value Versus Growth: The International Evidence 0 0 0 3 1 5 39 1,651
Value versus Growth: The International Evidence 0 0 0 3 1 4 38 1,471
Were Japanese Stock Prices Too High? 1 1 1 201 5 6 17 800
Total Working Papers 2 3 11 3,749 22 61 572 25,469


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A comparison of futures and forward prices 0 0 2 370 0 0 15 798
A five-factor asset pricing model 21 51 237 2,173 102 234 1,024 7,884
Aligning Incentives at Systemically Important Financial Institutions: A Proposal by the Squam Lake Group 0 0 0 47 1 2 12 177
Anomalies in Security Returns and the Specification of the Market Model: Discussion 0 0 0 24 0 2 9 90
Average Returns, B/M, and Share Issues 0 0 2 166 0 3 16 495
Business conditions and expected returns on stocks and bonds 8 10 44 3,494 18 37 138 6,581
Capital Structure Choices 0 0 8 146 1 3 26 344
Characteristics, Covariances, and Average Returns: 1929 to 1997 1 7 31 482 2 18 81 1,135
Choosing factors 8 22 76 1,390 12 52 235 3,402
Commodity Futures Prices: Some Evidence on Forecast Power, Premiums,and the Theory of Storage 14 36 155 2,506 32 93 413 4,762
Common risk factors in the returns on stocks and bonds 17 57 283 15,416 61 267 996 31,336
Comparing Cross-Section and Time-Series Factor Models 0 1 18 227 2 9 86 641
DISAPPEARING DIVIDENDS: CHANGING FIRM CHARACTERISTICS OR LOWER PROPENSITY TO PAY? 0 0 11 280 2 7 91 1,034
Detecting Spot Price Forecasts in Futures Prices 0 0 4 226 0 0 15 522
Disagreement, tastes, and asset prices 1 1 21 774 4 10 64 1,710
Disappearing dividends: changing firm characteristics or lower propensity to pay? 2 2 27 1,638 16 31 183 4,492
Dissecting Anomalies 1 4 25 688 9 25 106 1,920
Dissecting Anomalies with a Five-Factor Model 2 9 30 1,215 4 16 73 2,576
Dividend yields and expected stock returns 5 10 43 4,381 9 29 135 8,540
Effects of Nominal Contracting on Stock Returns 2 3 4 72 2 3 16 277
Expected stock returns and volatility 1 3 15 1,623 4 18 81 3,812
Financing decisions: who issues stock? 0 3 7 1,655 1 10 33 4,471
Forecasting Profitability and Earnings 1 3 16 1,373 14 31 87 3,891
House Prices and Rents 0 1 9 12 2 5 29 44
Incremental variables and the investment opportunity set 0 0 0 66 0 2 16 274
Industry costs of equity 2 19 54 4,483 10 33 149 8,738
International tests of a five-factor asset pricing model 4 12 44 816 8 35 164 2,388
Investor Diversification and International Equity Markets 2 4 21 1,717 6 16 149 4,987
Japanese and U.S. cross-border common stock investments 0 0 0 91 0 0 12 234
Luck versus Skill in the Cross‐Section of Mutual Fund Returns 3 8 46 368 38 83 291 1,418
Michael C. Jensen’s empirical work 1 2 3 3 2 5 43 43
Migration 1 1 2 2 3 10 33 36
Multifactor Explanations of Asset Pricing Anomalies 1 4 33 2,824 9 28 151 6,848
New lists: Fundamentals and survival rates 0 0 4 422 2 8 53 1,102
PRICING FINANCIAL FUTURES CONTRACTS: AN INTRODUCTION 1 1 1 65 2 2 10 131
Permanent and Temporary Components of Stock Prices 4 6 14 3,454 11 32 87 9,623
Presidential Address: The Cost of Active Investing 2 3 49 745 3 14 145 1,884
Profitability, investment and average returns 1 6 16 1,014 5 21 88 2,435
Sealed Bids, Sunk Costs, and the Process of Competition 0 0 0 183 1 1 6 563
Size and Book-to-Market Factors in Earnings and Returns 0 2 18 1,904 2 21 82 4,291
Size, value, and momentum in international stock returns 1 4 32 2,173 10 31 179 6,377
Stock return variances: The arrival of information and the reaction of traders 2 6 14 2,598 12 28 78 5,239
Stock returns and the weekend effect 5 8 29 2,888 10 35 102 5,744
Taxes and the Pricing of Stock Index Futures 0 1 1 201 0 2 11 436
The Anatomy of Value and Growth Stock Returns 0 0 0 0 9 9 13 16
The CAPM Is Wanted, Dead or Alive 1 3 13 1,751 3 13 50 4,126
The Capital Asset Pricing Model: Theory and Evidence 0 1 32 2,269 9 30 304 8,495
The Corporate Cost of Capital and the Return on Corporate Investment 0 0 3 406 0 2 21 1,340
The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns 11 23 92 9,145 34 116 507 23,741
The Equity Premium 1 1 9 589 3 4 67 1,233
The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System 0 0 2 196 2 3 26 826
The Value Premium 0 10 40 122 10 63 178 383
The Value Premium and the CAPM 0 0 9 627 1 3 30 1,560
The capital asset pricing model: theory and evidence 0 0 0 3 0 0 4 27
The pricing of stock index futures 0 3 6 82 1 6 19 193
Trading mechanisms and value-discovery: Cross-national evidence and policy implications: A comment 0 0 0 10 0 1 6 67
Volatility Lessons 1 4 6 6 1 6 16 16
Were Japanese stock prices too high? 1 1 1 218 1 2 12 784
Total Journal Articles 129 356 1,662 81,819 506 1,570 7,066 196,532


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System 0 0 0 0 1 1 11 121
Total Books 0 0 0 0 1 1 11 121


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Commodity Futures Prices: Some Evidence on Forecast Power, Premiums, and the Theory of Storage 2 2 19 175 5 14 69 384
Crash-Testing the Efficient Market Hypothesis 0 0 1 129 0 0 15 290
Introduction 0 0 0 3 0 1 8 47
Total Chapters 2 2 20 307 5 15 92 721


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