A Wealth-Based Explanation for Earnings Conservatism

Review of Finance

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 323-349

  Lubberink, Martien ^a   Huijgen, Carel ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capital markets; Earnings conservatism; Financial reporting

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844514977     PISSN: 15723097     EISSN: 1573692X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013887921233     Document Type: Article

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