The Limits of p-Hacking : A Thought Experiment
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DOI: 10.17016/FEDS.2019.016
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Keywords
Stock return anomalies; Multiple testing; p-hacking; Publication bias;All these keywords.
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- G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
- G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HPE-2019-04-01 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
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