Herding among security analysts

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 369-396

  Welch, Ivo ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysts; Herding; Imitation; Informational cascades

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034367589     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-405X(00)00076-3     Document Type: Article

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