Abnormal real operations, real earnings management, and subsequent crashes in stock prices

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting - Tập 46 Số 2 - Trang 217-260 - 2016
Bill B. Francis1, Iftekhar Hasan2,3, Lingxiang Li4
1Lally School of Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA
2Bank of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
3School of Business, Fordham University, New York, USA
4School of Business, State University of New York-Old Westbury, Old Westbury, USA

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