Earnings management around share repurchases: A note

Abacus

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 262-272

  Vafeas, Nikos ^a   Vlittis, Adamos ^b   Katranis, Philippos ^c   Ockree, Kanalis ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c PriceWaterhouseCooper   (Cyprus)

^d WASHBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earnings management; Share repurchases

Indexed keywords

EID: 17544367302     PISSN: 00013072     EISSN: 14676281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-6281.00130     Document Type: Article

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