Seminar
Promotion-based incentives and corporate fraud
Finance
Speaker: | Lars Helge Hass, Lancaster University |
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Date: | Friday 23 May 2014 |
Time: | 2pm |
Location: | Constantine Leventis Teaching Room, Building One |
Further details
This paper extends previous corporate fraud literature by investigating an additional incentive for committing securities fraud. Previous literature focused mainly on equity-based incentives and found mixed evidence about the effects of equity-based incentives on the likelihood of fraud. We study the impact of promotion-based incentives on the propensity of fraud, as predicted by both economic and behavioral theory. We find a significantly positive relationship between promotion-based incentives and the likelihood of alleged securities fraud. Overall, these findings indicate that promotion-based incentives are an important influencing factor for committing fraud.
Please find a copy of the full paper here: www.dropbox.com/s/yhdmg4a45metigd/Exeter%20paper.pdf