CFOs versus CEOs: Equity incentives and crashes

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 713-730

  Kim, Jeong Bon ^a   Li, Yinghua ^b   Zhang, Liandong ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

CFO; Compensation; Corporate governance; Crash risk; Equity incentives

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960407031     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2011.03.013     Document Type: Article

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