Earnings forecast errors: Comparative evidence from the Pacific-Basin capital markets

Pacific Basin Finance Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 115-129

  Allen, Arthur ^a   Cho, Jang Youn ^b   Jung, Kooyul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Hankuk University of Foreign Studies   (South Korea)

^c TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earnings forecasts; Forecast errors; Pacific Basin capital markets

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031068512     PISSN: 0927538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0927-538x(96)00021-2     Document Type: Article

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