Price and Volume Reactions to Public Information Releases: An Experimental Approach Incorporating Traders' Subjective Beliefs

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 437-479

  Gillette, Ann B ^a   Stevens, Douglas E ^b   Watts, Susan G ^c   Williams, Arlington W ^d  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001373110     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1911-3846.1999.tb00590.x     Document Type: Article

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