Institutional ownership and monitoring: Evidence from financial misreporting

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 443-455

  Burns, Natasha ^a   Kedia, Simi ^b   Lipson, Marc ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b RUTGERS BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Earnings management; Institutional investors; Monitoring; Restatements

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955171486     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2010.06.001     Document Type: Article

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