Investor sophistication and patterns in stock returns after earnings announcements

Accounting Review

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 43-63

  Bartov, Eli ^b   Radhakrishnan, Suresh ^a   Krinsky, Itzhak ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Anomalies; Institutional investor holdings; Market efficiency; Post earnings announcement drift; Transaction costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034380942     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2000.75.1.43     Document Type: Article

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