Limited attention and the earnings announcement returns of past stock market winners

Review of Accounting Studies

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 317-344

  Aboody, David ^a   Lehavy, Reuven ^b   Trueman, Brett ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomaly; Earnings announcement; Limited attention; Returns

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953027972     PISSN: 13806653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11142-009-9104-9     Document Type: Article

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