Voluntary Disclosure and Equity Offerings: Reducing Information Asymmetry or Hyping the Stock?

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 623-662

  Lang, Mark H ^a   Lundholm, Russell J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost of capital; Disclosure; Information asymmetry; Stock offering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001464179     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1506/9N45-F0JX-AXVW-LBWJ     Document Type: Article

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