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, generally implicit assumption that managers cannot undo their incentive packages, (ii) the standard modeling practice of … motives in managers' portfolio choices. …
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Casual observations suggest that bidder managers sometimes pay more than the economic value of target in mergers and … that bidder managers exploit their information advantage about the pricing implications of overpaid acquisitions by … acquisitions. Second, we document that bidder managers pay more than the economic value of targets not due to managerial hubris or …
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We examine whether individual-level taxes affect executives’ propensity to use nonpublic information in insider trades. We predict and find a positive relation between abnormal insider trading profitability and income tax rates. Using plausibly exogenous variation in state income tax rates, we...
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Using 196 Malaysian public listed firms, the study investigates the inter-relationship between executive compensation, earnings management and over investment. Although there is no evidence that executive directors enhance their compensation packages through earnings management, there is a...
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The wide-spread use of rank and file equity-based compensation suggests that executives believe that rank and file employees can affect firm outcomes, and some research supports this view. If equity-based incentives influence rank and file employees' productive efforts, they might also influence...
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This paper empirically studies the connection between earnings management and corporate social performance, conditional on the existence of CSR-contingent executive compensation contracts, an emerging practice to link executive compensation to corporate social performance. We find that...
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This paper examines the effects of executive compensation and potential for earnings management on the incidence of shareholder class action lawsuits and their outcomes. Although damage measurement factors,managerial option intensity, and earnings management all significantly affect the...
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