Delayed security price adjustments to financial analysts' forecasts of annual earnings

Accounting Review

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 613-632

  Elgers, Pieter T ^a   Lo, May H ^a   Pfeiffer Jr , Ray J ^a  

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Author keywords

Earnings forecasts; Financial analysts' coverage; Market mispricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035540372     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2001.76.4.613     Document Type: Article

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