Discussion of "The impact of the options backdating scandal on shareholders" and "Taxes and the backdating of stock option exercise dates"

Journal of Accounting and Economics

Volumn 47, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 50-58

  Armstrong, Christopher S ^a   Larcker, David F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backdating; Stock options

Indexed keywords

EID: 59749088115     PISSN: 01654101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacceco.2008.11.005     Document Type: Article

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