Financial Reporting Quality, Private Information, Monitoring, and the Lease-versus-Buy Decision

A flourishing stream of research suggests that liquidity-constrained firms with low accounting quality have limited access to capital for investments. We extend this research by investigating whether these firms are more likely to lease their assets. Lessors’ superior control rights allow them to pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Weber, Joseph P., Beatty, Anne, Liao, Scott
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Accounting Association 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76295
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2221-5198