Are stock price reversals really asymmetric? A note

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 189-201

  Dissanaike, Gishan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anomalies; Contrarian strategies; Efficient markets; Overreaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029687568     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-4266(95)00028-3     Document Type: Article

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