Can the market add and subtract? Mispricing in tech stock carve-outs

Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 227-268

  Lamont, Owen A ^a,b   Thaler, Richard H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRICE DYNAMICS; STOCK MARKET; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0013020712     PISSN: 00223808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/367683     Document Type: Article

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