Value relevance of FAS No. 157 Fair Value hierarchy information and the impact of corporate governance mechanisms

Accounting Review

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1375-1410

  Song, Chang Joon ^a   Thomas, Wayne B ^b   Yi, Han ^b  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Fair Value; Fair value hierarchy; FAS No. 157; Value relevance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956084161     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2010.85.4.1375     Document Type: Article

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