Tournament incentives and corporate fraud
Hass, Lars Helge and Müller, Maximilian A. and Vergauwe, Skrålan (2015) Tournament incentives and corporate fraud. Journal of Corporate Finance, 34. pp. 251-267. ISSN 0929-1199 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2015.07.008)
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Abstract
This paper identifies a new incentive for managers to engage in corporate fraud stemming from the relative performance evaluation feature of CEO promotion tournaments. We document higher propensities to engage in fraud for firms with strong tournament incentives (as proxied for by the CEO pay gap). We posit that the relative performance evaluation feature of CEO promotion tournaments creates incentives to manipulate performance, while the option-like character can motivate managers to engage in risky activities. We thereby extend previous corporate fraud literature that focuses mainly on equity-based incentives and reports mixed findings. Our results are robust to using different fraud samples, and controlling for other known determinants of fraud as well as manager skills.
ORCID iDs
Hass, Lars Helge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8338-6671, Müller, Maximilian A. and Vergauwe, Skrålan;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 73203 Dates: DateEvent31 October 2015Published18 July 2015Published Online13 July 2015AcceptedNotes: This is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Corporate Finance. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Corporate Finance, 34, 2015 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2015.07.008 Subjects: Social Sciences > Public Finance Department: Strathclyde Business School > Accounting and Finance Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 14 Jul 2020 14:39 Last modified: 04 Nov 2024 01:47 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/73203