Returns to contrarian investment strategies: Tests of naive expectations hypotheses

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-27

  Dechow, Patricia M ^a   Sloan, Richard G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysts' forecasts; Market efficiency; Naive expectations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030637317     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-405X(96)00887-2     Document Type: Article

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