The party's over: The role of earnings guidance in resolving sentiment-driven overvaluation

Management Science

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 308-319

  Seybert, Nicholas ^a   Yang, Holly I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asset pricing; Earnings guidance; Finance; Investor sentiment; Management; Market efficiency

Indexed keywords

ASSET PRICING; INVESTOR SENTIMENTS; MARKET EFFICIENCY; MARKET EXPECTATIONS;

COMMERCE; ECONOMICS; FINANCE; INVESTMENTS; MANAGEMENT;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84861409737     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1110.1386     Document Type: Article

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