Accounting earnings processes, inter-temporal incentives and their implications for valuation

Review of Accounting Studies

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 427-457

  Govindaraj, Suresh ^a   Ramakrishnan, Ram T S ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Continuous time; Inter temporal incentives; Principal agent; Residual earnings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645137016     PISSN: 13806653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012449931177     Document Type: Article

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