What fraction of stock option grants to top executives have been backdated or manipulated?

Management Science

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 513-525

  Heron, Randall A ^a   Lie, Erik ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Backdating; Executive compensation; Stock option grants

Indexed keywords

BACKDATING; EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; SMALL FIRM; STOCK OPTION GRANTS; STOCK OPTIONS; STOCK PRICE; TOP EXECUTIVE;

WINDOWS;

EID: 67650324409     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1080.0958     Document Type: Article

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