The role of newswires in screening and disseminating value-relevant information in periodic SEC reports

Accounting Review

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 669-701

  Li, Edward Xuejun ^a,b,c   Ramesh, K ^a,b,c   Shen, Min ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information dissemination; Information intermediaries; Market microstructure; Newswires; Periodic sec reports

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955575047     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.00000023     Document Type: Article

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