Earnings preannouncement strategies

Review of Accounting Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 5-26

  Soffer, Leonard C ^a   Ramuthiagarajan, S ^b   Walther, Beverly R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Mellon Capital Management   (United States)

Author keywords

Disclosure; Earnings Announcements; Market Reaction; Preannouncements

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002361275     PISSN: 13806653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009643517840     Document Type: Article

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