Strategic analysis of securities litigation against independent auditors

Auditing

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 57-80

  Cushing, Barry E ^a   Gilbertson, David L ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Game theory; Litigation crisis; Securities class action lawsuits

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040668275     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2002.21.2.57     Document Type: Article

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