Forecasting stock prices: Do forecasters herd?

Economics Letters

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 326-329

  Pierdzioch, Christian ^a   Rülke, Jan Christoph ^b  

^a HELMUT SCHMIDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b WHU OTTO BEISHEIM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

(Anti )herding; Forecasting; Stock prices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860217333     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.03.019     Document Type: Article

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