Sentiment and stock prices: The case of aviation disasters

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 174-201

  Kaplanski, Guy ^a   Levy, Haim ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Behavioral finance; Disasters; Event effect; Market sentiment; Reversal effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149118727     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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