Do Non-Executive Employees Matter in Curbing Corporate Financial Fraud

Exploiting staggered enactment of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) as a quasi-natural shock, we use a difference-in-differences (DiD) approach to investigate whether and how ESOPs mitigate corporate financial fraud in China. We find ESOPs significantly reduce corporate financial fraud. This is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wu, F., Cao, June, Zhang, X.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2023
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/91263