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Higher moments matter! Cross‐sectional (higher) moments and the predictability of stock returns 更高的时刻很重要！横截面（较高）矩和股票回报的可预测性

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Review of Financial Economics Pub Date : 2020-10-25 DOI: 10.1002/rfe.1121

S. Stöckl, L. Kaiser

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