Management earnings forecasts and the market's reaction to predicted bias in the forecast

Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 167-192

  Choi, Jong Hag ^a   Ziebart, David A ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

bias; management earnings forecast; private information search

Indexed keywords

EID: 52649169478     PISSN: 16081625     EISSN: 21642257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16081625.2004.10510641     Document Type: Article

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