Disclosure to an Audience with Limited Attention
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Keywords
Disclosure policy; disclosure regulation; limited attention; behavioral economics; behavioral accounting; behavioral finance; market efficiency; psychology and economics;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- M41 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Accounting
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading
- G18 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Government Policy and Regulation
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ACC-2004-12-12 (Accounting & Auditing)
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