CEO Compensation and Earnings Management

Over the recent 30 years, the increasing equity-based CEO compensation has attracted a lot of attention of the public. It is recognized as a superb way to mitigate the agency problem by linking firm performance to the compensation package. Therefore, executives may mask the firm performance by manip...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Qin, Ziqi
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36251/