The value and incentive effects of nontraditional executive stock option plans

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 3-34

  Johnson, Shane A ^a,c   Tian, Yisong S ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Executive compensation; Executive stock options; G13; Incentives; J33; Option valuation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034215640     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-405X(00)00049-0     Document Type: Article

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