Estimating firm-level and country-level effects in cross-sectional analyses: An application of hierarchical modeling in corporate disclosure studies

International Journal of Accounting

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 271-303

  Dong, Minyue ^a   Stettler, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Disaggregation; Disclosure; Hierarchical modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052416527     PISSN: 00207063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intacc.2011.07.002     Document Type: Article

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