Contrarian profits and the overreaction hypothesis: The case of the athens stock exchange

European Financial Management

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 71-98

  Antoniou, Antonios ^a,b   Galariotis, Emilios C ^a,b   Spyrou, Spyros I ^a,b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Contrarian profits; Delayed reaction; Emerging stock markets; G1; Multifactor models; Overreaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015533836     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1354-7798.2005.00276.x     Document Type: Article

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