Rationality of analysts' earnings forecasts: Evidence from dow 30 companies

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 915-929

  Mohanty, Sunil K ^a   Aw, Edward N W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

^b Quantitative Investment Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 33747597780     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100500426564     Document Type: Article

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