Why Do Large Firms' Prices Anticipate Earnings Earlier than Small Firms' Prices?

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 191-212

  Ayers, Benjamin C ^a   Freeman, Robert N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Earnings; Firm size; Market efficiency; Momentum

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348236963     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1506/M9B9-RQD7-U8KA-503U     Document Type: Article

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