Driven to distraction: Extraneous events and underreaction to earnings news

Journal of Finance

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2289-2325

  Hirshleifer, David ^a   Lim, Sonya Seongyeon ^b   Teoh, Siew Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 70349495343     PISSN: 00221082     EISSN: 15406261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2009.01501.x     Document Type: Article

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