Earnings management and investor protection: an international comparison

Journal of Financial Economics - Tập 69 Số 3 - Trang 505-527 - 2003
Christian Leuz1, Dhananjay Nanda2, Peter D. Wysocki3
1The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
2The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
3MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA

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