Economics of Accounting

1. Introduction to Information in Markets.- 1.1 Basic Decision-facilitating Role of Information.- 1.2 Public Information in Equity Markets.- 1.3 Private Investor Information in Equity Markets.- 1.4 Disclosure of Private Owner Information in Equity and Product Markets.- 1.5 Concluding Remarks.- A Basic Decision-Facilitating Role of Information.- 2. Single Person Decision Making under Uncertainty.- 3. Decision-Facilitating Information.- 4. Risk Sharing, Congruent Preferences, and Information in Partnerships.- B Public Information in Equity Markets.- 5. Arbitrage and Risk Sharing in Single-period Markets.- 6. Arbitrage and Risk Sharing in Multi-period Markets.- 7. Public Information in Multi-period Markets.- 8. Production Choice in Efficient Markets.- 9. Relation Between Market Values and Future Accounting Numbers.- 10. Relation Between Market Values and Contemporaneous Accounting Numbers.- C Private investor Information in Equity Markets.- 11. Impact of Private Investor Information in Equity Markets.- 12. Strategic Use of Private Investor Information in Equity Markets.- D Disclosure of Private Owner Information in Equity and Product Markets.- 13. Disclosure of Private Information by an Undiversified Owner.- 14. Disclosure of Private Information by Diversified Owners.- 15. Disclosure of Private Information in Product Markets.- Author Index.