Wheatley, Clark; Brown, Robert; Johnson, George - In: Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 24 (2005) 3, pp. 277-293
We investigated disclosure decisions by identifying a circumstance, the spin-off of a segment, where the benefits of …. We found significant stock price increases associated with the spin-off announcement regardless of prior segment … disclosure history. We also found, however, that the stock price increases were temporary for firms without prior segment …