Stock option compensation and the likelihood of meeting analysts' quarterly earnings targets

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 301-319

  Bauman, Mark P ^a   Shaw, Kenneth W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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EID: 32944473320     PISSN: 0924865X     EISSN: 15737179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11156-006-7435-1     Document Type: Review

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