Economic benefits of adopting IFRS or US-GAAP - Have the expected cost of equity capital really decreased

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 33, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 329-373

  Daske, Holger ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cost of equity capital; IAS IFRS; US GAAP

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646886798     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2006.00611.x     Document Type: Review

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