Reliability-Relevance Trade-Offs and the Efficiency of Aggregation

Journal of Accounting Research

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-88

  Dye, Ronald A ^a   Sridhar, Sri S ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 1642309651     PISSN: 00218456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-679X.2004.00129.x     Document Type: Article

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