Board committees, CEO compensation, and earnings management
- We analyze the effect of committee formation on how corporate boards perform two main functions: setting CEO pay and overseeing the financial reporting process. The use of performance-based pay schemes induces the CEO to manipulate earnings, which leads to an increased need for board oversight. If the whole board is responsible for both functions, it is inclined to provide the CEO with a compensation scheme that is relatively insensitive to performance in order to reduce the burden of subsequent monitoring. When the functions are separated through the formation of committees, the compensation committee is willing to choose a higher pay-performance sensitivity as the increased cost of oversight is borne by the audit committee. Our model generates predictions relating the board committee structure to the pay-performance sensitivity of CEO compensation, the quality of board oversight, and the level of earnings management.
| Author: | Christian LauxORCiDGND, Volker LauxGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-345587 |
| URL: | http://sfb649.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/QFS/en/papers/laux.pdf |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2006 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2006 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2014/09/23 |
| Tag: | Board Oversight; Corporate Governance; Earnings Management; Executive Compensation |
| GND Keyword: | Topmanager; Generaldirektor; Vorstandsvorsitzender; Geschäftsführer |
| Issue: | September 2006 |
| Page Number: | 30 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 366215086 |
| Institutes: | Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Center for Financial Studies (CFS) | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
