Sustained earnings and revenue growth, earnings quality, and earnings response coefficients

Review of Accounting Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 33-57

  Ghosh, Aloke ^a,b   Gu, Zhaoyang ^c   Jain, Prem ^d  

^a United States Securities and Exchange Commission   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earnings growth; Earnings quality; Earnings response coefficients; Revenue growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444366922     PISSN: 13806653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11142-004-6339-3     Document Type: Article

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