WASHINGTON TRIED TO PROTECT INVESTORS. IT FAILED

By Nathaniel Luce

Publication: WALL STREET JOURNAL

This blog interview with ROBERT WHALEY, Valere Blair Potter Professor of Management, discusses a study recently published in The Journal of Accounting Research that examines the effect of Regulation Fair Disclosure, which Congress passed in 2000. Whaley is a co-author of the study. This article appears in the online edition only.