Information environment and the investment decisions of multinational corporations

Accounting Review

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 759-790

  Shroff, Nemit ^a   Verdi, Rodrigo S ^a   Yu, Gwen ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency frictions; Capital budgeting; Cross border frictions; Financial reporting quality; Information quality; Investment; Multinational firms; Transparency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903169657     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr-50643     Document Type: Article

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