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Public Information in Multi-Period Markets

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Economics of Accounting

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Chapter 6 extends the single period analysis in Chapter 5 to a setting with multiple consumption dates and sequential trading of long-lived securities. This provides greater scope for exploring the impact of public information.

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Christensen, P.O., Feltham, G.A. (2003). Public Information in Multi-Period Markets. In: Economics of Accounting. Springer Series in Accounting Scholarship, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1133-5_7

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