The association between the legal and financial reporting environments and forecast performance of individual analysts;Le lien entre le régime de droit et d'information financière, et la performance prévisionnelle des analystes

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 727-758

  Barniv, Ran ^a   Myring, Mark J ^b   Thomas, Wayne B ^c  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysts' characteristics; Civil law; Common law; Relative forecast performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 29844458546     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1506/75CE-HAT9-RH17-LAD7     Document Type: Review

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