Mean reversion in stock prices: Evidence and Implications
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether stock prices are mean-reverting, using data from the United States and 17 other countries, and they found that there is positive and negative autocorrelation in returns over short horizons and negative auto-correlation over longer horizons.
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About: This article is published in Journal of Financial Economics. The article was published on 01 Oct 1988. and is currently open access. The article focuses on the topics: Mean reversion & Random walk hypothesis.
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