Disclosure frequency and information asymmetry

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 411-440

  van Buskirk, Andrew ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disclosure; Earnings announcements; Information asymmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859576409     PISSN: 0924865X     EISSN: 15737179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11156-011-0237-0     Document Type: Article

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