On the estimation of stock-market reaction to corporate layoff announcements

Review of Financial Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 357-370

  Hahn, TeWhan ^a   Reyes, Mario G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dummy variable regression; EGARCH; Layoffs; Time varying volatility

Indexed keywords

EID: 8844269564     PISSN: 10583300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rfe.2003.12.004     Document Type: Article

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