Substitution between real and accruals-based earnings management after voluntary adoption of compensation clawback provisions

LH Chan, KCW Chen, TY Chen… - The Accounting …, 2015 - publications.aaahq.org
To deter financial misstatements, many companies have recently adopted compensation
recovery policies—commonly known as “clawbacks”—that authorize the board to recoup …

Performance-vesting provisions in executive compensation

JC Bettis, J Bizjak, JL Coles, S Kalpathy - Journal of Accounting and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The usage of performance-vesting (pv) equity awards to top executives in large US
companies has grown from 20 to 70 percent from 1998 to 2012. We measure the effects of …

Executive equity risk-taking incentives and audit pricing

Y Chen, FA Gul, M Veeraraghavan… - The Accounting …, 2015 - publications.aaahq.org
Using a large sample of US firms spanning the period 2000–2010, we document a strong
positive association between the sensitivity of CEO compensation portfolio to stock return …

The effects of firm-initiated clawback provisions on bank loan contracting

LH Chan, KCW Chen, TY Chen - Journal of Financial Economics, 2013 - Elsevier
Although firm-initiated clawbacks reduce accounting manipulation, they also induce
managers to engage in suboptimal activities (eg, reduce research and development (R&D) …

Can shareholders be at rest after adopting clawback provisions? Evidence from stock price crash risk

D Bao, SYK Fung, L Su - Contemporary Accounting Research, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Using a propensity score matched sample and a difference‐in‐differences research design,
we find that stock price crash risk increases after a firm voluntarily incorporates clawback …

The effect of voluntary clawback adoption on non-GAAP reporting

H Kyung, H Lee, C Marquardt - Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
We examine the effect of voluntary adoption of clawback provisions on non-GAAP earnings
disclosures. Prior literature documents that voluntary clawback adoption improves financial …

Auditor independence in the United States: Cornerstone of the profession or thorn in our side?

BK Church, JG Jenkins, JD Stanley - Accounting Horizons, 2018 - publications.aaahq.org
The objective of this paper is to provide a systematic evaluation of independence as a
foundational element of the auditing profession. We maintain that while independence is a …

CEO attributes, compensation, and firm value: Evidence from a structural estimation

TB Page - Journal of Financial Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
I present and estimate a dynamic model of chief executive officer (CEO) compensation and
effort provision. I find that variation in CEO attributes explains the majority of variation in …

The costs and benefits of clawback provisions in CEO compensation

MA Chen, DT Greene, JE Owers - The Review of Corporate …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We analyze the costs and benefits of clawback provisions that enable firms to recover
incentive compensation from top management if financials are restated. In a simple …

Why do restatements decrease in a clawback environment? An investigation into financial reporting executives' decision-making during the restatement process

JS Pyzoha - The Accounting Review, 2015 - publications.aaahq.org
Prior archival studies find that firms that voluntarily adopted clawback policies have
experienced a reduction in restatements. I experimentally examine this outcome by …