Do acquirers disclose good news or withhold bad news when they finance their acquisitions using equity?

Review of Accounting Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 183-217

  Ge, Rui ^a   Lennox, Clive ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Acquisitions; Deception; Disclosure; Management forecasts

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952001947     PISSN: 13806653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11142-010-9139-y     Document Type: Article

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