Earnings Management and Contest to the Control: An Analysis of European Family Firms
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Keywords
corporate control; discretionary accruals; earnings management; family firms;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- M41 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Accounting
- G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ACC-2008-07-30 (Accounting & Auditing)
- NEP-BEC-2008-07-30 (Business Economics)
- NEP-CFN-2008-07-30 (Corporate Finance)
- NEP-EEC-2008-07-30 (European Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2008-07-30 (Labour Economics)
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