Public disclosure of forward contracts and revelation of proprietary information

Review of Accounting Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 459-478

  Hughes, John S ^a   Kao, Jennifer L ^b   Williams, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disclosure; First mover advantage; Forward contracts; Private information

Indexed keywords

EID: 52649084315     PISSN: 13806653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020715729207     Document Type: Article

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