Tightening credit standards: The role of accounting quality

Review of Accounting Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 123-160

  Jorion, Philippe ^a   Shi, Charles ^a   Zhang, Sanjian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounting quality; Credit rating agencies; Credit standards; Earnings management; Value relevance

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149489926     PISSN: 13806653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11142-007-9054-z     Document Type: Article

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