Changes in analysts' information around earnings announcements

Accounting Review

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 821-846

  Barron, Orie E ^a   Byard, Donal ^a   Kim, Oliver ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Common information; Earnings announcements; Financial analysts; Forecast aggregation; Idiosyncratic information

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036807125     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2002.77.4.821     Document Type: Article

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