Charoenwong, Charlie; Jiraporn, Pornsit - 2008
Earnings play a vital role in portraying a company's economic health. Hence, executives have incentives to manage earnings. Motivated by Degeorge et al. (1999) and Burgstahler and Dichev (1997), this study applies the behavioral framework developed by Degeorge et al. (1999) to investigate...