Ownership incentives and management fraud

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 34, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 1123-1140

  Sen, Pradyot K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Financial fraud; Limited liability; Sequential equilibrium; Signalling game; White collar crime

Indexed keywords

EID: 35148868547     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2007.02026.x     Document Type: Article

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