Feedback loops, fair value accounting and correlated investments

Review of Accounting Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 377-416

  Bloomfield, Robert J ^a   Nelson, Mark W ^a   Smith, Steven D ^b  

^a The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Fair value accounting; Laboratory markets; Market efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746265963     PISSN: 13806653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11142-006-9003-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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