Earnings behaviour of financially distressed firms: The role of institutional ownership

Abacus

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 271-296

  Charitou, Andreas ^a   Lambertides, Neophytos ^b   Trigeorgis, Lenos ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

Abnormal returns; Audit opinions; Distress; Earnings management; Institutional ownership; Management turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547993481     PISSN: 00013072     EISSN: 14676281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6281.2007.00230.x     Document Type: Article

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