The paper takes Chinese listed companies from 2010 to 2016 as samples, to examine the relationship between executive overconfidence and equity incen-tive. Results show that executive overconfidence has a significant weakening effect on equity compensation incentives (including stock options and re-stricted stocks), that is, compared with rational executives, the company will reduce the equity incentives for overconfident executives.
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