Investment opportunity set and voluntary disclosure of prospective information: A simultaneous equations approach

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 32, Issue 5-6, 2005, Pages 871-907

  Hossain, Mahmud ^a,d   Ahmed, Kamran ^b   Godfrey, Jayne M ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Investment opportunity set; New Zealand; Prospective (forward looking) information; Voluntary disclosure

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844492398     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0306-686X.2005.00616.x     Document Type: Review

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