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Research Papers

Does beta react to market conditions? Estimates of ‘bull’ and ‘bear’ betas using a nonlinear market model with an endogenous threshold parameter

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Pages 913-924 | Received 21 Jan 2007, Accepted 17 Oct 2008, Published online: 25 Mar 2009

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