An Empirical Study on the Effects of Equity Incentive of the Listed Corporations in the SME Board of China<br/> —An Empirical Analysis Based on the View of Earnings Management

Abstract

Currently, most researches are focus ing on Shanghai & Shenzhen exchange, and few researches have been done on the SME board. Besides, while studying the effect of equity incentive, most of the researchers have ignored the earnings management triggered by stock ownership incentive. This paper takes the SME board companies which have implemented stock ownership incentive as the research object. We have used earnings management to modify the company performance and carried out an empirical research to study the effect of stock ownership incentive. Our result shows that without earnings management to modify the company performance, stock ownership incentive is positively related to company performance . Taking the earnings management into account, the positive correlation relationship between stock ownership incentive and company performance will be weakened, and stock ownership incentive will stimulate earnings management.