Creditor rights and real earnings management: Evidence from quasi-natural experiments
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DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2023.103629
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- H. Zhang & S. Boubaker & X. Ni, 2023. "Creditor Rights and Real Earnings Management: Evidence from Quasi-Natural Experiments," Post-Print hal-04435476, HAL.
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Keywords
Creditor right; Real earnings management; Anti-recharacterization law; Monitoring; Short-termism;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
- G38 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Government Policy and Regulation
- M41 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Accounting
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