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| Tekijä: | Yermack, D. |
| Otsikko: | Good timing: CEO stock option awards and company news announcements. |
| Lehti: | Journal of Finance
1997 : JUN, VOL. 52:2, p. 449-476 |
| Asiasana: | CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS MANAGING DIRECTORS COMPANIES STOCK OPTIONS |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | This article analyzes the timing of CEO stock option awards, as a method of investigating corporate managers' influence over the terms of their own compensation. In a sample of 620 stock option awards to CEOs of Fortune 500 companies between 1992 and 1994, the author finds that the timing of awards coincides with favorable movements in company stock prices. Patterns of company quarterly earnings announcements are consistent with an interpretation that CEOs receive stock option awards shortly before favorable corporate news. Yermack evaluates and rejects several alternative explanations of the results, including insider trading and the manipulation of news announcement dates. |
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