CEO Inside Debt and Accounting Conservatism
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| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2131–2159 |
| Journal / Publication | Contemporary Accounting Research |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Online published | 22 Nov 2017 |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 2018 |
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Abstract
We examine the relation between accounting conservatism and inside debt held by managers in the form of pension benefits and deferred compensation. We find that financial reporting is less conservative in firms whose CEOs hold more inside debt, particularly in firms with high default risk and agency costs of debt. This is consistent with our hypothesis that by aligning managerial incentives more closely with those of debtholders, inside debt reduces debtholders' expropriation concerns and thus their demand for accounting conservatism. Our results are robust to identification strategies addressing the endogeneity of CEO inside debt and to alternative measures of accounting conservatism.
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CEO Inside Debt and Accounting Conservatism. / WANG, Cong; XIE, Fei; XIN, Xiangang.
In: Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 35, No. 4, 12.2018, p. 2131–2159.
In: Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 35, No. 4, 12.2018, p. 2131–2159.
Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review
