Following the money: The enron failure and the state of corporate disclosure

Following the Money: The Enron Failure and the State of Corporate Disclosure

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-126

  Benston, George ^a,b   Bromwich, Michael ^c   Litan, Robert E ^d   Wagenhofer, Alfred ^e,f  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^d BROOKINGS INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^f Europ Inst Adv Studs in Mgmt   (Belgium)

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