Ralf Winkler untersucht empirisch die Auswirkungen der Aufsichtsratsvergütung auf die Überwachungseffektivität deutscher Aufsichtsratsgremien. Unter Verwendung eines Datensatzes mit Unternehmensinformationen börsennotierter Kapitalgesellschaften der Jahre 2010 bis 2013 gibt er Anhaltspunkte...

On July 1, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed an excess-pay clawback rule to implement the provisions of Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Act. I explain why the SEC's proposed Dodd-Frank clawback, while reducing executives' incentives to misreport, is overbroad. The economy...

This paper make four important contributions to the accounting literature. First, it shows that discretionary accruals are associated with CEO cash compensation, but that the coefficient is significantly less than that on nondiscretionary accruals. Second, a differential reaction is found to...

We examine the economic consequences of the recent adoption of SFAS 123(R) in the United States. Consistent with the conjectures of prior research, our results show that the removal of favorable accounting treatment for stock options post SFAS 123(R) results in a switch from stock options to...