Accounting Measurement Bias and Executive Compensation Systems
Description:
This dissertation presents empirical evidence intended to help answer two research questions. The first question asks whether executive compensation systems appear to exploit the bias in accounting-based performance measures in order to reduce the volatility in executive compensation and to allocate incentives more effectively across the range of activities performed by the executive. The second question asks whether compensation systems systematically differ between firms that use alternative …
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Date:
December 1994
Creator:
Boone, Jeffery Paul
Partner:
UNT Libraries