Accruals, cash flows, and aggregate stock returns

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 389-406

  Hirshleifer, David ^a   Hou, Kewei ^b   Teoh, Siew Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accruals; Aggregate stock returns; Behavioral finance; Cash flows; Discount rates

Indexed keywords

EID: 61549110192     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2007.11.009     Document Type: Article

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