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ARE JAPANESE STOCK PRICES TOO HIGH? 0 0 0 0 2 4 18 549
Characteristics, Covariances, and Average Returns: 1929 to 1997 0 0 0 1 1 2 17 853
Characteristics, Covariances, and Average Returns: 1929-1997 0 0 0 3 0 1 11 873
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 5 10 160 2,294
Forecasting Profitability and Earnings 0 0 0 1 5 7 18 824
Forecasting Profitability and Earnings 0 0 0 1 3 7 25 1,232
Investor Diversification and International Equity Markets 3 6 10 2,204 24 35 101 6,319
Newly Listed Firms: Fundamentals, Survival Rates, and Returns 0 0 2 487 2 2 18 1,102
Sunk Costs and Competitive Bidding 0 0 0 9 2 3 12 40
Taxes, Financing Decisions, and Firm Value 0 0 0 2 2 3 19 915
Testing Tradeoff and Pecking Order Predictions about Dividends and Debt.” 0 0 0 120 6 10 69 2,060
The Corporate Cost of Capital and the Return on Corporate Investment 0 0 0 0 1 1 10 831
The Corporate Cost of Capital and the Return on Corporate Investment 0 0 0 0 1 3 15 892
The Equity Premium." 0 0 0 567 2 2 20 2,611
Value Versus Growth: The International Evidence 0 0 0 3 6 9 43 1,659
Value versus Growth: The International Evidence 0 0 0 3 4 9 42 1,479
Were Japanese Stock Prices Too High? 0 1 1 201 8 14 25 809
Total Working Papers 3 7 14 3,754 74 122 631 25,569


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A comparison of futures and forward prices 2 2 4 372 5 5 20 803
A five-factor asset pricing model 7 38 224 2,190 91 271 1,028 8,053
Aligning Incentives at Systemically Important Financial Institutions: A Proposal by the Squam Lake Group 0 0 0 47 1 3 13 179
Anomalies in Security Returns and the Specification of the Market Model: Discussion 0 0 0 24 2 2 9 92
Average Returns, B/M, and Share Issues 0 1 3 167 4 6 21 501
Business conditions and expected returns on stocks and bonds 8 21 51 3,507 25 59 169 6,622
Capital Structure Choices 1 1 8 147 2 3 23 346
Characteristics, Covariances, and Average Returns: 1929 to 1997 0 2 30 483 5 12 82 1,145
Choosing factors 5 19 79 1,401 30 62 247 3,452
Commodity Futures Prices: Some Evidence on Forecast Power, Premiums,and the Theory of Storage 10 36 155 2,528 41 109 436 4,839
Common risk factors in the returns on stocks and bonds 15 50 264 15,449 89 216 1,030 31,491
Comparing Cross-Section and Time-Series Factor Models 2 3 17 230 10 17 94 656
DISAPPEARING DIVIDENDS: CHANGING FIRM CHARACTERISTICS OR LOWER PROPENSITY TO PAY? 0 0 11 280 2 7 89 1,039
Detecting Spot Price Forecasts in Futures Prices 0 0 4 226 3 3 17 525
Disagreement, tastes, and asset prices 4 7 20 780 7 15 66 1,721
Disappearing dividends: changing firm characteristics or lower propensity to pay? 0 7 25 1,643 13 45 174 4,521
Dissecting Anomalies 5 9 29 696 20 34 118 1,945
Dissecting Anomalies with a Five-Factor Model 1 3 29 1,216 13 27 91 2,599
Dividend yields and expected stock returns 5 13 46 4,389 11 29 140 8,560
Effects of Nominal Contracting on Stock Returns 0 2 4 72 0 2 16 277
Expected stock returns and volatility 1 2 15 1,624 14 20 88 3,828
Financing decisions: who issues stock? 1 3 9 1,658 3 8 37 4,478
Forecasting Profitability and Earnings 3 6 18 1,378 38 79 147 3,956
House Prices and Rents 0 2 9 14 1 5 28 47
Incremental variables and the investment opportunity set 0 0 0 66 2 2 17 276
Industry costs of equity 8 14 58 4,495 19 43 160 8,771
International tests of a five-factor asset pricing model 6 12 47 824 21 44 186 2,424
Investor Diversification and International Equity Markets 3 6 24 1,721 29 43 180 5,024
Japanese and U.S. cross-border common stock investments 0 0 0 91 4 4 16 238
Luck versus Skill in the Cross‐Section of Mutual Fund Returns 7 13 50 378 71 130 358 1,510
Michael C. Jensen’s empirical work 0 1 3 3 2 5 44 46
Migration 0 1 2 2 4 9 37 42
Multifactor Explanations of Asset Pricing Anomalies 3 8 34 2,831 11 30 149 6,869
New lists: Fundamentals and survival rates 1 1 5 423 7 11 54 1,111
PRICING FINANCIAL FUTURES CONTRACTS: AN INTRODUCTION 0 1 1 65 2 4 12 133
Permanent and Temporary Components of Stock Prices 0 7 16 3,457 11 34 104 9,646
Presidential Address: The Cost of Active Investing 1 4 42 747 10 20 134 1,901
Profitability, investment and average returns 1 6 18 1,019 9 25 100 2,455
Sealed Bids, Sunk Costs, and the Process of Competition 0 0 0 183 4 5 10 567
Size and Book-to-Market Factors in Earnings and Returns 1 4 21 1,908 4 12 87 4,301
Size, value, and momentum in international stock returns 3 7 30 2,179 22 57 206 6,424
Stock return variances: The arrival of information and the reaction of traders 1 6 16 2,602 10 33 93 5,260
Stock returns and the weekend effect 10 22 44 2,905 38 69 157 5,803
Taxes and the Pricing of Stock Index Futures 0 0 1 201 1 2 12 438
The Anatomy of Value and Growth Stock Returns 0 1 1 1 7 21 25 28
The CAPM Is Wanted, Dead or Alive 1 4 14 1,754 1 7 46 4,130
The Capital Asset Pricing Model: Theory and Evidence 3 3 23 2,272 21 32 289 8,518
The Corporate Cost of Capital and the Return on Corporate Investment 1 1 3 407 3 3 21 1,343
The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns 10 30 92 9,164 75 155 567 23,862
The Equity Premium 0 3 10 591 6 18 75 1,248
The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System 0 0 2 196 3 7 29 831
The Value Premium 7 13 49 135 40 65 223 438
The Value Premium and the CAPM 0 1 7 628 4 7 30 1,566
The capital asset pricing model: theory and evidence 3 3 3 6 6 7 9 34
The pricing of stock index futures 0 1 6 83 3 6 19 198
Trading mechanisms and value-discovery: Cross-national evidence and policy implications: A comment 0 0 0 10 4 4 10 71
Volatility Lessons 0 2 6 7 1 4 17 19
Were Japanese stock prices too high? 0 1 1 218 7 8 18 791
Total Journal Articles 140 403 1,683 82,093 892 1,965 7,677 197,991


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System 0 0 0 0 2 3 11 123
Total Books 0 0 0 0 2 3 11 123


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Commodity Futures Prices: Some Evidence on Forecast Power, Premiums, and the Theory of Storage 4 7 23 180 14 20 78 399
Crash-Testing the Efficient Market Hypothesis 0 0 1 129 0 0 15 290
Introduction 0 0 0 3 0 0 8 47
Total Chapters 4 7 24 312 14 20 101 736


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