演讲题目

The Impact of Shareholder Litigation Risk on Equity Incentives: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

演讲者

余扬新副教授

演讲时间

2019年7月1日（星期一）

上午10:00-11:30

演讲地点

嘉庚二205

主持人

吴育辉教授

参加者

对会计、财务研究有兴趣的师生

摘要：

While prior studies generally support that equity-based compensation inducesCEOs to manipulate financial reporting, there is little direct empirical evidence on how concerns regarding financial misreporting affect compensation design. Exploiting the exogenous reduction in litigation threat brought about by a 1999 ruling of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, we examine how the weakened litigation environment affected CEOs’ compensation design. Consistent with the theoretical prediction that concerns regarding misreporting prevent companies from providing more powerful incentive pay that is otherwise optimal, we find that firms headquartered in Ninth Circuit Court states decreased CEOs’ equity portfolio vega after the ruling. We also show that the reduction was more pronounced for firms with higher litigation risk and for firms with lower institutional ownership.

余扬新，于2011年获得香港科技大学会计学博士学位，现任香港城市大学副教授，Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics 副主编，曾在《Strategic Management Journal》、《The Accounting Review》、《Journal of Accounting and Economics》、《Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis》等杂志上发表多篇论文。