Post-Earnings Announcement Drift and the Dissemination of Predictable Information

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 305-331

  Soffer, Leonard C ^a   Lys, Thomas ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000504246     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1911-3846.1999.tb00583.x     Document Type: Article

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