Performance-vested stock options and earnings management

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 35, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 1049-1078

  Kuang, Yu Flora ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Earnings management; Equity incentive; Performance vested stock options

Indexed keywords

EID: 56649121704     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2008.02104.x     Document Type: Article

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