Inter-temporal changes in analysts' forecast properties under the Australian continuous disclosure regime

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1101-1123

  Hsu, Grace C M ^a   Lindsay, Steven ^a   Tutticci, Irene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analysts' forecasts; Continuous disclosure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871193918     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2011.00451.x     Document Type: Article

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