Capital market reactions to earnings announcements: empirical evidence on the difference in the information content of IAS-based earnings and EC-Directives-based earnings

European Accounting Review

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 587-623

  Auer, Kurt V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

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EID: 0000774862     PISSN: 09638180     EISSN: 14684497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638189600000039     Document Type: Article

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