Are executive stock options associated with future earnings?

Journal of Accounting and Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 1-3 SPEC. ISS., 2003, Pages 3-43

  Hanlon, Michelle ^a   Rajgopal, Shivaram ^b   Shevlin, Terry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Incentive alignment; Management compensation; Rent extraction; Stock options

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742269362     PISSN: 01654101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacceco.2003.10.008     Document Type: Article

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