How do investors react under uncertainty?

Pacific Basin Finance Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 310-327

  Bird, Ron ^a   Yeung, Danny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Asymmetric response; Earnings announcement; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655180685     PISSN: 0927538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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