Impact of investors' status on their evaluation of positive and negative, and past and future information

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 719-739

  Cianci, Anna M ^a   Falsetta, Diana ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Goals; Information temporality; Information valence; Investor status

Indexed keywords

EID: 54849409709     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2008.00269.x     Document Type: Article

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