Institutional monitoring and opportunistic earnings management

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 29-48

  Chung, Richard ^a   Firth, Michael ^a   Kim, Jeong Bon ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Earnings management; Institutional investors

Indexed keywords

EID: 1142289719     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-1199(01)00039-6     Document Type: Article

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