Asset Pricing at the millennium

HIER
Harvard Institute of Economic Research
Discussion Paper Number 1897

Asset Pricing at the Millennium
By

John Y. Campbell
May 2000

Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This paper can be downloaded without charge from the
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http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=236584
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