The association between disclosure level and information quality: Voluntary management earnings forecasts

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 677-692

  Yhim, Hark Ppin ^a   Karim, Khondkar E ^b   Rutledge, Robert W ^c  

^a Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FORECASTING METHOD;

EID: 0042972976     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100210138538     Document Type: Article

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