Assessing investor response to information events using return and volume metrics

Accounting Review

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 891-909

  Cready, William M ^a   Hurtt, David N ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute returns; Event study; Information content; Unexpected return; Volume

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036808381     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2002.77.4.891     Document Type: Article

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