Companies' modest claims about the value of CEO stock option awards

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 207-226

  Yermack, David ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disclosure; Executive stock option valuation

Indexed keywords

EID: 54649083669     PISSN: 0924865X     EISSN: 15737179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008299824396     Document Type: Article

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