Disclosure incentives and effects on cost of capital around the world

Accounting Review

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1125-1162

  Francis, Jere R ^a,b   Khurana, Inder K ^a   Pereira, Raynolde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cost of capital; External financing; Voluntary disclosure

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844468604     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2005.80.4.1125     Document Type: Review

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