Informed trading and the market reaction to accounting restatements

Accounting Review

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1519-1547

  Badertscher, Brad A ^a   Hribar, S Paul ^b   Jenkins, Nicole Thome ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information risk; Insider trading; Repurchases; Restatements

Indexed keywords

EID: 80155152532     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr-10093     Document Type: Article

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