Voluntary Nonfinancial Disclosure and the Cost of Equity Capital: The Initiation of Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting

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  2011

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  The Accounting Review

• Publication date

  2011-09-30

• Fields of study

  Business, Economics

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  DOI 10.2308/ACCR.00000005
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