Information trading by corporate insiders based on accounting accruals: Forecasting economic performance

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 819-842

  Hodgson, Allan ^a   Van Praag, Bart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accrual quality; Continuous information reporting; Insider arbitrage returns; Insider trading

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751187125     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629x.2006.00206.x     Document Type: Article

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