Stock price synchronicity and public firm-specificinformation

Journal of Financial Markets

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 259-276

  Xing, Xuejing ^a   Anderson, Randy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Firm specific information; G14; M41; R squared; Self selection; Stock price synchronicity; Voluntary disclosure

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650789017     PISSN: 13864181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.finmar.2010.10.001     Document Type: Article

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