Managerial incentives for income smoothing through bank loan loss provisions

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 63-80

  Kanagaretnam, Kiridaran ^a   Lobo, Gerald J ^b   Mathieu, Robert ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Income smoothing; Job security; Loan loss provision

Indexed keywords

EID: 24144469757     PISSN: 0924865X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022187622780     Document Type: Article

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