Incentives for risk reporting - A discretionary disclosure and cheap talk approach

International Journal of Accounting

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 184-206

  Dobler, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cheap talk; Discretionary disclosure models; Incentives; Regulation; Risk management; Risk reporting

Indexed keywords

EID: 80655147199     PISSN: 00207063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intacc.2008.04.005     Document Type: Article

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