Corporate governance and the informativeness of disclosures in Australia: A re-examination

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 931-963

  Beekes, Wendy ^a   Brown, Philip ^b,c   Zhang, Qiyu ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Disclosures; Price discovery; Timeliness; Transparency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954317451     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acfi.12088     Document Type: Article

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