Market reaction to Business Week 'inside wall street' column: A self-fulfilling prophecy

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 617-643

  Sant, Rajiv ^a   Zaman, Mir A ^b  

^a MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analyst following; Analyst recommendations; Market efficiency; Private information

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030136969     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-4266(95)00025-9     Document Type: Article

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