Measuring long-horizon security price performance

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 301-339

  Kothari, S P ^a   Warner, Jerold B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abnormal returns; Event studies; Long horizon performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031097376     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-405X(96)00899-9     Document Type: Article

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