Do stock market investors overreact?

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-50

  Dissanaike, Gishan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0001846523     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5957.00093     Document Type: Article

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