Investor pricing of CEO equity incentives

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 417-435

  Boone, Jeff P ^a   Khurana, Inder K ^b   Raman, K K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

CEO equity incentives; Cost of equity capital; Information quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953178221     PISSN: 0924865X     EISSN: 15737179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11156-010-0183-2     Document Type: Article

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