Shocks to shocks: A theoretical foundation for the information content of earnings

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 135-166

  Callen, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ball Brown; Earnings; Information content; Variance decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 62949121386     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: 19113846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1506/car.26.1.5     Document Type: Article

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