Evidence that investors trade on private event-period information around earnings announcements

Accounting Review

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 403-421

  Barron, Orie E ^a   Harris, David G ^b   Stanford, Mary ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysts' forecasts; Private information; Trading volume

Indexed keywords

EID: 18944381438     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2005.80.2.403     Document Type: Article

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