Are Earnings Surprises Costly?
Preprint
- 1 January 1999
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
We investigate potential costs experienced by firms that repeatedly have large quarterly earnings surprises during a condensed period of time. Consistent with oKeywords
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