Market reaction surrounding the filing of periodic SEC reports

Accounting Review

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1171-1208

  Li, Edward Xuejun ^a   Ramesh, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cal endar quarter end effect; Concurrent earnings release; Market reaction; Periodic SEC reports

Indexed keywords

EID: 69549092368     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2009.84.4.1171     Document Type: Article

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