What do we learn from two new accounting-based stock market anomalies?

Journal of Accounting and Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 1-3 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 333-348

  Basu, Sudipta ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral finance; Economic significance; Institutional evolution; Joint hypothesis; Market design

Indexed keywords

EID: 12344277751     PISSN: 01654101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacceco.2004.10.001     Document Type: Article

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