<heading id="h1" level="1" implicit="yes" format="display">ABSTRACT</heading>This study examines whether Chief Executive Officer (CEO) equity-based holdings and compensation provide incentives to manipulate accounting reports. While several prior studies have examined this important question, the empirical evidence is mixed and the existence of a link between CEO...

The discussion reinforces and expands on some of the fundamental issues about endogeneity raised by Chenhall and Moers (European Accounting Review, this issue, pp. 173-195). We focus on the econometric problems researchers encounter when investigating the performance effects of some endogenous...