Stock Price Reactions to On-Target Earnings Announcements Implications for Earnings Management
Preprint
- 1 January 2001
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
We investigate the consequences of earnings management by analyzing stock price reactions to on-target quarterly earnings announcements (earnings that coincideKeywords
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