Do individual investors cause post-earnings announcement drift? Direct evidence from personal trades

Accounting Review

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1521-1550

  Hirshleifer, David A ^a   Myers, James N ^b   Myers, Linda A ^b   Teoh, Siew Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual investors; Investor sophistication; Market efficiency; Post earnings announcement drift

Indexed keywords

EID: 59049092414     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2008.83.6.1521     Document Type: Article

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