Stock price response to news of securities fraud litigation: An analysis of sequential and conditional information

Abacus

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-48

  Griffin, Paul A ^a   Grundfest, Joseph A ^b   Perino, Michael A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

^c ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Class action; Economic impact; Fraud, accounting; Litigation; Stock market

Indexed keywords

EID: 33344466894     PISSN: 00013072     EISSN: 14676281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6281.2004.00149.x     Document Type: Article

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