The role of information precision in determining the cost of equity capital

Review of Accounting Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 233-259

  Botosan, Christine A ^a   Plumlee, Marlene A ^a   Xie, Yuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost of capital; Private information; Public information; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843119925     PISSN: 13806653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:rast.0000028188.71604.0a     Document Type: Conference Paper

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