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Investment Efficiency and Corporate Governance and How They Could Impact Voluntary Disclosure: Study in the UK Stock Market

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Investment efficiency and corporate governance play a major role when it comes to the financial reporting quality, this will look at the effect on a more specific characteristic which is voluntary disclosure. This study provides evidence in documenting the positive (negative) association between voluntary disclosure and the combination of investment efficiency and corporate governance in the UK stock market.

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Assad, N.F., Ahmad, A., Alshurideh, M. (2023). Investment Efficiency and Corporate Governance and How They Could Impact Voluntary Disclosure: Study in the UK Stock Market. In: Hassanien, A.E., Snášel, V., Tang, M., Sung, TW., Chang, KC. (eds) Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2022. AISI 2022. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 152. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20601-6_40

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