Learning from peers' stock prices and corporate investment

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 554-577

  Foucault, Thierry ^a   Fresard, Laurent ^b  

^a HEC PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate investment; Informed trading; Managerial learning; Peers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893664011     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2013.11.006     Document Type: Article

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