Are executive stock option exercises driven by private information?

Review of Accounting Studies

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 551-570

  Aboody, David ^a   Hughes, John ^a   Liu, Jing ^a   Su, Wei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Fuller and Thaler Asset Management Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensation; Insider trading; Private information; Stock options

Indexed keywords

EID: 50149097758     PISSN: 13806653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11142-007-9050-3     Document Type: Article

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