The impact of investor sophistication on price responses to earnings news

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 221-236

  Lsharkawy, Ashrafe ^a   Garrod, Neil ^b  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0042877921     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.1996.tb00908.x     Document Type: Article

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