Post-earnings-announcement drift: Some preliminary evidence for the UK

Accounting and Business Research

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 283-293

  Hew, Denis ^a   Skerratt, Len ^a   Strong, Norman ^a   Walker, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0042877571     PISSN: 00014788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00014788.1996.9729519     Document Type: Article

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