The impact of voluntary disclosure on cost of equity capital estimates in a temporal setting

Journal of Intellectual Capital

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 577-594

  Kristandl, Gerhard ^a   Bontis, Nick ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disclosure; Equity capital; Intellectual capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 35648946811     PISSN: 14691930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14691930710830765     Document Type: Article

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