In this paper, we investigate the consequences of fraud for CEOs and whether these consequences depend on CEO power. We … find that CEO power can reduce the likelihood of director turnover as well as CEO turnover after fraud detection. Further …, we find that CEO power is negatively related to long-term stock performance after fraud detection and this negative …

In within-firm analysis of 1,805 executives, executives implicated in financial reporting fraud cases have … significantly stronger equity incentives than their within-firm peers who are not implicated in the fraud. Executives implicated in … fraud cases also have significantly stronger equity incentives than executives at non-fraud firms in similar roles. However …

This study examines whether and how anticorruption efforts may mitigate the risk of corporate fraud. Based on a sample … likelihood of fraud commission and increase the likelihood of detection given fraud. These effects are driven by state …-developed market and legal institutions are less likely to commit fraud in the post anticorruption period. Firms increasing internal …

We provide a lower-bound estimate of the undetected share of corporate fraud. To identify the hidden part of the … frauds are detected. We estimate that on average 10% of large publicly traded firms are committing securities fraud every … year, with a 95% confidence interval of 7%-14%. Combining fraud pervasiveness with existing estimates of the costs of …