How investors trade around interim earnings announcements

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 33, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 145-178

  Vieru, Markku ^a   Perttunen, Jukka ^a   Schadewitz, Hannu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Accounting disclosure; Event study; Investor behaviour; Trading activity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645129766     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2006.01358.x     Document Type: Review

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