The dark side of rent-seeking: The impact of rent-seeking on earnings management

@article{Liu2018TheDS,  title={The dark side of rent-seeking: The impact of rent-seeking on earnings management},  author={Baohua Liu and Yan Lin and Kam C. Chan and Hung-Gay Fung},  journal={Journal of Business Research},  year={2018},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:158315455}}

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