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University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Earnings management

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Corporate Political Activity, Ceo Hubris, And Earnings Management, Abbey Rozanski May 2017

Corporate Political Activity, Ceo Hubris, And Earnings Management, Abbey Rozanski

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Clawback Provisions: How Sharp Are The Claws? An Analysis Of The Deterrence Effectiveness Of Voluntary Clawback Provisions, Allison Kristina Beck May 2012

Clawback Provisions: How Sharp Are The Claws? An Analysis Of The Deterrence Effectiveness Of Voluntary Clawback Provisions, Allison Kristina Beck

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This paper investigates the effectiveness of voluntary clawback provisions as a deterrent for earnings management behavior. The Dodd-Frank (DF) Bill signed into law July 21, 2010 mandates that the SEC adopt a rule requiring all U.S.-listed companies to implement clawback provisions that recapture excess compensation received by executives on the basis of a faulty financial statement filing with the SEC that later must be restated. Implicitly, the DF regulation assumes that clawbacks will successfully constrain financial misreporting and that a “one-size-fits-all” approach is best. In contrast with prior research that has investigated factors associated with a firm’s decision to adopt …