The timeliness of accounting disclosures in international security markets

International Review of Financial Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 849-869

  Conover, C Mitchell ^a   Miller, Robert E ^b   Szakmary, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Financial reporting; International Accounting; International Financial markets

Indexed keywords

EID: 54849407569     PISSN: 10575219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.irfa.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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