When an event is not an event: The curious case of an emerging market

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 69-101

  Bhattacharya, Utpal ^a   Daouk, Hazem ^a   Jorgenson, Brian ^b   Kehr, Carl Heinrich ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Carreker Antinori   (United States)

^c BankBetriebsWirtschafat   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emerging markets; Event studies; G14; G15; Insider trading

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033634230     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-405X(99)00045-8     Document Type: Article

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