Strategic disclosure of risky prospects: A laboratory experiment

Accounting Review

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 825-846

  Hobson, Jessen L ^a   Kachelmeier, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anchoring; Information economics; One sided disclosure; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 23244440336     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2005.80.3.825     Document Type: Article

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