Earnings management and abnormal returns: Evidence from the 1970-1972 price control regulations

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-19

  Bowman, Robert G ^a   Navissi, Farshid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Discretionary accruals; Earnings management; Price control; Regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 75949106205     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-629X.00080     Document Type: Article

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