Performance shocks and misreporting

Journal of Accounting and Economics

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 57-72

  Gerakos, Joseph ^a   Kovrijnykh, Andrei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Earnings management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877830602     PISSN: 01654101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacceco.2013.04.001     Document Type: Article

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