Earnings management, asset restructuring, and the threat of exchange delisting in an earnings-based regulatory regime

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 438-456

  Cheng, Peng ^a   Aerts, Walter ^a   Jorissen, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Asset Restructuring; China; Corporate Governance; Earnings Management; Earnings based Delisting Regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956578785     PISSN: 09648410     EISSN: 14678683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2009.00780.x     Document Type: Article

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