CEO risk-related incentives and income smoothing

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1029-1065

  Grant, Julia ^a   Markarian, Garen ^b   Parbonetti, Antonio ^c  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

CEO compensation structure; CEO risk incentives; Earnings management; Income smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 76249132640     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: 19113846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1506/car.26.4.2     Document Type: Article

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