The Relevance of Accounting Information in a Stock Market Bubble: Evidence from Internet IPOs

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 37, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 291-321

  Bhattacharya, Nilabhra ^a   Demers, Elizabeth ^b   Joos, Philip ^c  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSEAD   (France)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accounting information; Failure prediction; High tech; Innovation; Internet; IPO; Market crash; Risk assessment; Stock bubbles

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953878144     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2009.02144.x     Document Type: Article

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