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Google Search intensity and stock returns in frontier markets: Evidence from the Vietnamese market1

Economics and Business Review
Volume 10 (2024): Issue 1 (April 2024)
By: Dang Thi Viet Duc,  Nguyen Thu Hoai,  Van Phuoc Nguyen,  Dang Phong Nguyen,  Nguyen Huong Anh and  Ho Hong Hai  
Open Access
|Apr 2024

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18559/ebr.2024.1.778 | Journal eISSN: 2450-0097 | Journal ISSN: 2392-1641
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Language: English
Page range: 30 - 56
Submitted on: Aug 23, 2023
Accepted on: Feb 15, 2024
Published on: Apr 10, 2024
Published by: Poznań University of Economics and Business Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
investor attention,
search intensity,
Google Search,
stock returns,
frontier markets,
Vietnam,
COVID-19
Related subjects:
Business and economics,
Mathematics and statistics for economists,
Econometrics,
Political economics,
Political economics, other,
Finance

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