Individuals' perceptions and misperceptions of time series properties of quarterly earnings

Accounting Review

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 317-336

  Maines, Laureen A ^a   Hand, John R M ^a  

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Author keywords

Forecasting; Post earnings announcement drift; Quarterly earnings

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030305177     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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