Extracting forward-looking information from security prices: A new approach

Accounting Review

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1101-1124

  Weiss, Dan ^a   Naik, Prasad A ^b   Tsai, Chih Ling ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Market adapted earnings; Single index model

Indexed keywords

EID: 53549132274     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2008.83.4.1101     Document Type: Article

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