O. Maurice Joy, Robert H. Litzenberger, Richard W. McEnally, The Adjustment of Stock Prices to Announcements of Unanticipated Changes in Quarterly Earnings, Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Autumn, 1977), pp. 207-225
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