Financial reporting complexity and investor underreaction to 10-k information

Review of Accounting Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 559-586

  You, Haifeng ^a   Zhang, Xiao jun ^b  

^a Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well Being   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

10 K filing; Financial reporting complexity; Stock price drift

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350335012     PISSN: 13806653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11142-008-9083-2     Document Type: Article

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