Revisiting the relation between the default risk of debt and the earnings response coefficient

Accounting Review

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 509-522

  Billings, Bruce K ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Bond ratings; Debt equity ratio; Default risk; ERC

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033236344     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.1999.74.4.509     Document Type: Article

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