CEO

Earnings management consists of a firm’s insiders cooking the books, that is, manipulating reported earnings via discretionary accruals a

CEOs of U.S. public companies have significant influence over policy and political decisions.

CEO duality – the practice of combining the roles of the CEO and chairman of the board – has been the topic of one of the longest debates

Rising executive compensation has been subject of fierce public debates over the last decades.

We study if a CEO’s equity-based compensation affects the expected value generation in takeovers.

Two laboratory experiments show that investors perceive a CEO to be more committed to honesty when the CEO resisted, at a personal cost,