Corporate disclosure quality and the cost of debt

Accounting Review

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 459-474

  Sengupta, Partha ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Bond yield; Cost of debt; Disclosure quality; Interest cost

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032359234     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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